Saint-Pierre-Langers / Saint-Pierre-l'Angers

INFORMATION

FontID: 03271PIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-Langers [formerly at the parish church; now disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Rte de la Haye, 50530 Saint-Pierre-Langers, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D673-D109 crossroads, about 10 km SE of Granville
Historical Region: Le Cotentin
Font Location in Church: Disappeared
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century (?), Romanesque
Church Notes: church late-11thC; much modified 12th, 17th, 18thC
Font Notes:
Vivier-Seguin report it as lost and give Le Héricher's description as being a heavy square basin supported on five crude columns whose capitals were carved into the basin bottom. From this description Vivier-Seguin draw analogies with the fonts at Gragey and Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard (Vivier, 1941). The font is described in Wikimanche [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Saint-Pierre_(Saint-Pierre-Langers)#cite_note-ELH-2] [accessed 25 March 2025]: "Les fonts baptismaux sont une lourde cuve carrée portée par cinq colonnettes grossières" [NB: the source is given as "Édouard Le Héricher, « Commune de Saint-Pierre-Langers », Avranchin monumental et historique, vol.2, éd. Tostain, Avranches, 1847, p.659-664"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.785371, -1.499121
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 47′ 7.34″ N, 1° 29′ 56.84″ W
UTM: 30U 610247 5404683

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

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