Gratot
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coat of arms - D'Argouge family
![shown here in the left panel, the arms barely discernible now [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250327005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: shown here in the left panel, the arms barely discernible now [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 October 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_-_Fonds_baptismaux.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - 16
Scene Description: some sides inscribe blank shields in the lower half, others do not
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 October 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_-_Fonds_baptismaux.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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design element - architectural - column - 5
Scene Description: the outer columns have patterned upper capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2012 by Franck Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L022825] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: in the upper and lower spandrels; some of them resemble triquetras
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 October 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_-_Fonds_baptismaux.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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inscription
Scene Description: shown here in the upper-right corner of the image: much damaged and illegible now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 October 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_-_Fonds_baptismaux.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Gratot"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2017 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_(1).jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Gratot - Nef" -- showing a modern stoup by the south entranceway
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_-_Nef.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing the later flat cover in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2012 by Franck Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L022824] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing the pyramidal cover in this pre-1928 photograph
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APELR001470] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Gratot - Fonds [sic] baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Gratot_-_Fonds_baptismaux.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 27 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03301GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de Gratot
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 82 Rue d'Argouges, 50200 Gratot, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D244, 4 km NW of Coutances.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century (?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: 15thC; re-built 18thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110423]: "15e siècle ; 18e siècle"
Font Notes:
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Described in Vivier-Seguin (1941): a hexagonal font [cf. infra] mounted on five columns and dated to the 15th century. Vivier-Seguin describe the ornamentation as consisting of a pair of Ogee arches framed in a square moulding on each side of the basin; under each of the arches a carved coat of arms, most of their details hammered off, although V-S identify that of ther Argouge family and another of an allied family of theirs; they also tell about an illegible inscription which suffered the same fate. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50000503]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire [...] La cuve est octogonale [...] 15e siècle [...] H = 100 ; d = 80 [...] Armoiries : (sur chaque face de la cuve)" [NB: the shields are on every other side of the basin; the alternate sides have no shields]. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APELR001470. AP80L022824, AP80L022825]. The different photographs of the font show two covers in use [cf. ImagesArea]: a pre-1928 photograph by Enlart shows an octagobal pyramidal cover with plain sides; the later digital photographs show an octagonal flat cover; there is significant damage to the upper area of the basin where the stone was split by one of the metal anchorings for the cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.067416, -1.490237
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 4′ 2.7″ N, 1° 29′ 24.85″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: unknown
Inscription Text: Reported illegible ca. 1941
Inscription Source: Vivier-Seguin (1941)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: two covers [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-27 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941