Bellefontaine / Bello fonte

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Bellefontaine"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 November 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Bellefontaine_(2).JPG] [accessed 19 December 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de Bellefontaine"

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

FontID: 03300BEL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de Bellefontaine

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Chem. le Chemin de l'Église, 50520 Juvigny les Vallées, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

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 Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Church Notes: present church 1713, a re-building of a previous Romanesque one of wich the Roman portal survived

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.688619, -0.975522

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 41′ 19.03″ N, 0° 58′ 31.88″ W

UTM: 30U 648996 5394803

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