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"
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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

FontID: 03274CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de la Sainte-Trinité de La Croix-Avranchin
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Rue St Jacques de Compostelle, La Croix-Avranchin, 50240 Saint-James, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
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
Font Location in Church: The old font has now disappeared
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original 11thC church; re-built 14thC; morified 17th and 18thC
Font Notes:
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.54563, -1.38322
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 32′ 44.27″ N, 1° 22′ 59.59″ W
UTM: 30U 619325 5378210

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