Croix-Avranchin / La Croix-Avranchin
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église paroissiale de La Croix-Avranchin (50)."
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Trinité de La Croix-Avranchin"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a 2 May 2013 digital photograph by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte-Trinité_de_La_Croix-Avranchin.JPG] [accessed 24 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03274CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de la Sainte-Trinité de La Croix-Avranchin
Font Location in Church: The old font has now disappeared
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: original 11thC church; re-built 14thC; morified 17th and 18thC
Church Address: Rue St Jacques de Compostelle, La Croix-Avranchin, 50240 Saint-James, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: La Croix-Avranchin is located off the D40, now [2017+] in the municipality of Saint-Jacques, and 5 km NW of it, about 17 km S of Avranches.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Additional Comments: recycled font?: replaced? disappeared?; very old Romanesque font. V-S report the presence [ca. 1941] of a marble "cuvette" of an insipid pink colour ("marbre, d'un rose si fade") as replacement. (Vivier, 1941)
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) report the old font lost [by 1941] and give the available description from Le Héricher and Pigeon as being a very old Romanesque font. V-S report the presence [ca. 1941] of a marble "cuvette" of an insipid pink colour ("marbre, d'un rose si fade") as replacement. (Vivier, 1941). The entry for this town in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Croix-Avranchin] [accessed 24 April 2024] mentions an ancient Romanesque font made of granite that was relegated to the exterior of the church, south side, when it was replaced by a 19th-century oval font of black marble with white and pink veins, topped with a copper cover with an orb-and-cross finial ["Les anciens fonts baptismaux en granite de l'époque romane ont été placés à l'extérieur de l'église, sur le côté sud de la nef lors de leur remplacement au XIXe siècle par des fonts à cuve ovale en marbre noir veiné de blanc et rose, fermée par un couvercle en cuivre doré, sommé d'un globe et d'une croix latine. Ces objets ont été inscrits au titre des monuments historiques, respectivement le 4 août 1988 et le 20 avril 2015"] [NB: the Wikipedia entry gives the following reference "Conservation des Antiquités et Objets d'art, « Fonts baptismaux 1 et 2 [archive] » (fiches d'inventaire), sur Conseil départemental de la Manche (consulté le 29 mai 2021)" but it is not accessible [24 April 2024]]. Le Héricher (1846) mentions a lovely holy-water stoup in the Gothic style/period.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 619325 5378210
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.54563, -1.38322
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 32′ 44.27″ N, 1° 22′ 59.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
REFERENCES
- Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 39