Boisroger / Bosco Rogerii
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Nicolas de fr:Boisroger"
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Image Source: digital photograph 29 October 2011 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boisroger_-_Église_Saint-Nicolas.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Boisroger, Manche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2016
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the contour on the flooring; was that the lower base of the original font? [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 October 2016 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Nicolas_de_Boisroger_-_Pieta_et_fond_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Boisroger, Manche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 29 October 2016 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Nicolas_de_Boisroger_-_Pieta_et_fond_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03293BOI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 7 Le Prieuré, Boisroger, 50200 Gouville-sur-Mer, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Boisroger is located off the D432, about 8 km NW of Coutances [integrated in 2016 into Gouville-sur-Mer]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [altered?], Medieval?
Church Notes: donation of the church documented 11thC; present church 12thC, modified 15th and 18thC
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe this as a badly mutilated font; originally hemispheric and resting on a 5-column base, it was, by the time they saw it (ca. 1941), already cut into an octagonal shape and had lost the colonnettes of the base. The font, as it stands now, is indeed a plain one consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a cylindrical pedestal base, all plain; the ground on which the font stands does skow the contours that match the description in Vivier-Seguin, which, if their description is correct, would have matched a font characteristic of theis area in the Romanesque period, whther the basin were hemispheric or table-top. The present wooden cover, a tall octagonal pyramid, is probably 18th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.089444, -1.546192
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 5′ 22″ N, 1° 32′ 46.29″ W
UTM: 30U 606143 5438417
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941