Hambye

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animal - unidentified

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 14 October 2017 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapelle_latérale_de_l'église_Saint-Pierre_de_Hambye.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2025]

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design element - motifs - piping or ribs

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Pierre d'Hambye"

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef de l'église Saint-Pierre de Hambye"

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view of font and cover - west side

Scene Description: as suggested in Vivier-Seguin [cf. FontNotes] the font is a composite; they suggest the limestone base is older than the granite basin; the latter has eight 'capitals' that would have had corresponding colonnettes in its base

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapelle latérale de l'église Saint-Pierre de Hambye"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2017 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapelle_latérale_de_l'église_Saint-Pierre_de_Hambye.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03309HAM
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Hambye
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Rue de l'Église, 50450 Hambye, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D398, about 25 km SE of Coutances
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a side chapel
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century (?), Medieval [composite font]
Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 15thC; modified 17th, 18th, 19thC
A hybrid font according to Vivier-Seguin (1941): the granite basin is square with the angles trimmed rendering it octagonal-looking; the narrower limestone base is octagonal and has traces of carvings of animals (?); V-S suspect that the base is older than the basin (Vivier, 1941)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.9434, -1.2789
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 56′ 36.24″ N, 1° 16′ 44.04″ W
UTM: 30U 626026 5422591

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (basin) and limestone (base)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square with trimmed corners to match the basin top; flat and plain; cross finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

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