Ronthon / Ronton

Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe how they found this font in the cemetery, near the south wall of the parish church a few years before 1941; since then, they write, it was sold to a second-hand furniture dealer, a former civil servant, who in turn sold it again and the trace disppeared there. They also write that, eighteen months after the first sale, "Beaux-Arts" (presumably V-S mean the Paris institution) finally decided to act on the documentation and classification of this font, whose "rapport et photographie" V-S had supplied them with. As V-S comment graphically illustrates ("la lenteur administrative était, une fois de plus, coupable!"), it was too late. The font is/was, according to V-S' information, an octagonal one made of granite blocks, similar in its general form to the one at the parish church at le Mont-Saint-Michel and from the same period, the 13th century and, like the one at le Mont, adorned with one arch on each face (Vivier, 1941)