Folligny

INFORMATION

FontID: 03306FOL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de Folligny

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 50320 Folligny, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located 18 km NW of Avranches

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches

Font Location in Church: disappeared

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

Church Notes: present church 17th-19thC church may have replaced an earlier [Romanesque?] building

Font Notes: Click to view

Vivier-Seguin mention that a vague reference to this disappeared font is made in Le Héricher describing it as being of the style of the period (Gothic) and having four colonnettes in the base with bases and capitals (Vivier, 1941)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.823245, -1.411242

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 49′ 23.68″ N, 1° 24′ 40.47″ W

UTM: 30U 616614 5409024

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: Unknown

Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941