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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Trinité des Chambres"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 April 2014 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte-Trinité_des_Chambres_(2).JPG] [accessed 15 September 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03272CHA
Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Trinité des Chambres
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: La Prte au Goubey, Les Chambres, 50320 Le Grippon, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D41 [La Prte au Goubey], 14-15 km N of Avranches
Historical Region: L'Avranchin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: present church is a 17th-18thC re-building of a previous building documented in the 12thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Medieval baptismal font noted in Édouard Le Héricher's Commune des Chambres, Avranchin monumental et historique, vol. 2, p.15-20 (Avranches, 1846) [https://archive.org/details/AvranchinMonumentalEtHistoriqueTome2/page/n23/mode/2up] [accessed 15 September 2023]: "Les fonts sont une enorme cuve, dont la cuvette se voit dans le cimetiere, et probablement ils remontent a l'epoque de la fondation de l'eglise." Vivier-Seguin (1941) reported this font as disappeared by 1941, though still in place in the mid-19th century; they give Le Héricher's description as an enormous basin and his dating contemporary with that of the church, the 12th century. The Wikimange entry for this church [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Sainte-Trinité_(Les_Chambres)] [accessed 15 Septembre 2023] reports the remains of very large basin now in the churchyard ["Les fonts baptismaux sont une énorme cuve dont la cuvette se voit dans le cimetière, ils remontent probablement à l'époque de la fondation de l'église"]. The Wikipedia entry for Les Chambres [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chambres] [accessed 15 September 2023] mentions an ancient font outside the church and gives Daniel Delattre et Emmanuel Delattre, La Manche les 602 communes, Grandvilliers, Éditions Delattre, 2002, 280 p. (ISBN 978-2-9159-0709-4), p. 52, as reference. A 1984/2004[?] photograph of the font by Jean Fontaine is archived in the Archives du Calvados [Les CHAMBRES : ancienne cuve médiéval. (Cimetière). Inventaire Supplémentaire (photo n°111/16)] [no digital image available].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.765765,
-1.38895
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 45′ 56.75″ N,
1° 23′ 20.22″ W
UTM: 30U 618386 5402669
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: fragment
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941