Petit-Celland / Le Petit-Celland / Sellant / Serlant

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03270PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th - 10th century, Early Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: La Chapelle-Urée?
Church / Chapel Name: Formerly at the Église paroissiale du Petit-Celland [now disappeared]
Font Location in Church: Disappeared
Church Notes: original church 9thC(?) destryed in Viking invasion; re-built 11thC; present church 18thC
Church Address: 3 Rte du Presbytere, 50370 Le Petit-Celland, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Le Petit-Celland is located off the D106, about 15 km E of Avranches, 5-6 km NW of La Chapelle-Urée, site of another such lost font
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayeux et Liseux
Historical Region: L'Avranchin
Additional Comments: recycled font?: disappeared by 1941
Font Notes:
Reported by Vivier-Seguin in 1941 as a lost font; they give Le Héricher's description: "block énorme, mal arrondi, reposant sur trois pierres brutes en forme de piliers. Vous croiriez voir un dolmen".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 631644 5395275
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.696611, -1.210972
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 41′ 47.8″ N, 1° 12′ 39.5″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 38