Amigny

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design element - architectural - tracery - window

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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 03307AMI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame d'Amigny
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Le Bourg, 50620 Amigny, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D377, 5 km NW of Saint-Lô
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century (?), Gothic
Font Notes:
Vivier-Seguin (1941) report a painted limestone font with a square basin, the base has constructional legs at the four corners while the space between the colonnettes is ornamented with an Ogee arch ("trilobée et fleuronnée"). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50013478]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire [...] Cuve carrée ornée de fenestrages, sur base en pierre de taille [...] 15e siècle [...] Repeint [...] Angle nord-ouest de la nef".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.154615, -1.17758
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 9′ 16.61″ N, 1° 10′ 39.29″ W
UTM: 30U 632880 5446243

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 75 cm
Notes on Measurements: Vievier-Seguin, 1941, p. 55

REFERENCES

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