Saint-Brice-de-Landelles / St-Brice-de-Landelles

Results: 7 records

design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled

Scene Description: Several of them over the basin sides

design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: Order may be inaccurate

liturgical equipment - chalice

Scene Description: Order may be inaccurate

symbol - cross

Scene Description: Order may be inaccurate

symbol - crown

Scene Description: Order may be inaccurate

symbol - heart

Scene Description: Order may be inaccurate

view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieSaintBriceDeLandellesEglise.jpg] [accessed 8 September 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03289BRI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Bricw
Church Patron Saints: St. Brictius [aka Brice of Tours]
Church Location: 5 Le Bourg, 50730 Saint-Brice-de-Landelles, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D134, 20 km NNE of Fougères
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Historical Region: Cotentin, Basse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: original church 12thC; modifid 15th, 18thC; restored 2010-2011
Vivier-Seguin (1941) report this font as rectangular, made of granite; they date it to the 15th or 16th century. Unlike many granite fonts its basin has a detailed carving program: one side has a double pannel in very high relief; the left has a square frame with a crown in it and, inside the crown, a rose; the spandrels of this frame have long trilobes; the right pannel has an Ogee arch within a square frame and, in it, two smaller Ogee arches; there are trilobes on the sides and a heart in the centre; other details include a chalice and a cross. The base is also rectangular and made of two granite blocks with deep mouldings. At the time of V-S' report [ca. 1941] there was a wooden pyramidal cover of recent manufacture.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 636464 5377349

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,

REFERENCES

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941