Bellefontaine / Bello fonte
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Bellefontaine"
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Bellefontaine"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 1 November 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Bellefontaine_-_Nef.JPG] [accessed 19 December 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03300BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin de Bellefontaine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: present church 1713, a re-building of a previous Romanesque one of wich the Roman portal survived
Church Address: Chem. le Chemin de l'Église, 50520 Juvigny les Vallées, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D33, in the municipality and ENE of Juvigny-les-Vallées, about 20 km E of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) quote Sauvage's imprecise description: the basin is supported on four colonnettes "de fort bon style" and include them in their group of Gothic fonts of the area dated to the 13th or 14th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 648996 5394803
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.688619, -0.975522
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 41′ 19.03″ N, 0° 58′ 31.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 53