Saussemesnil / Sauxemesnil / Saussemesnil-Ruffosses / Sauxemesnil-Ruffosses
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Scene Description: Souce caption: "Fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Grégoire de Saussemesnil" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2024 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_l'église_Saint-Grégoire_de_Saussemesnil.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03304SAU
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Grégoire de Saussemesnil
Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great
Church Location: Ham. de l'Église, 50700 Saussemesnil, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D24-D146, 8 km N of Valognes, 15 km SE of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Church Notes: 11th-12thC church; much modified 15th and 18thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Vivier-Segui (1941), after Renault, describe it simply as a cylindrical basin supported on five colonnettes, one central and four outer ones. The present font in this church does not appear to match the mentioned sources [cf. ImagesArea]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
49.56934,
-1.45568
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
49° 34′ 9.62″ N,
1° 27′ 20.45″ W
UTM: 30U 611660 5491895
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941