Saint-Pierre-Langers / Saint-Pierre-l'Angers
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03271PIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century (?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-Langers [formerly at the parish church; now disappeared]
Font Location in Church: Disappeared
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church late-11thC; much modified 12th, 17th, 18thC
Church Address: Rte de la Haye, 50530 Saint-Pierre-Langers, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D673-D109 crossroads, about 10 km SE of Granville
Historical Region: Le Cotentin
Additional Comments: recycled font?: disappeared by 1941
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 610247 5404683
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.785371, -1.499121
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 47′ 7.34″ N, 1° 29′ 56.84″ W
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, p. 38