Saint-Loup nr. Avranches
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view of font and context - north side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de Saint-Loup, Manche, France. Font-baptismal."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pethrus, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 20 August 2013 by Pethrus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr_Manche_Saint-Loup_Church_Baptismal_font.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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view of font - drawing
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 a 1976 B&W photograph by Aclocque-Lottmann of a 3 January 1921 drawing by G. Malençon [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP76N00355] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Scene Description: on both basins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pethrus, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 August 2013 by Pethrus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr_Manche_Saint-Loup_Church_Baptismal_font.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: on both basins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pethrus, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 August 2013 by Pethrus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr_Manche_Saint-Loup_Church_Baptismal_font.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Loup de Saint-Loup. Vue sud-est"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2017 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Loup_de_Saint-Loup._Vue_sud-est.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Manche Saint-Loup Church Inside" -- showing the font in the bottom-right corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pethrus, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 20 August 2013 by Pethrus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr_Manche_Saint-Loup_Church_Inside_3.JPG] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03317LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1602?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Loup de Saint-Loup
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Loup [5thC Bishop of Bayeux]
Church Notes: early-12thC church; modified 1602 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110588]
Church Address: Rue de l'Abbé Bécherel, 50300 Saint-Loup, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Saint-Loup is located off the D557, 7 km ESE of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941): double font of uneven sides, the larger octagonal while the smaller is hexagonal, but they share identical ornamentation, the main element of which is a significant torus in rope form around the "waist" of the fonts; the fonts are narrower in their middle, where the rope motif appears to tie them together. V-S point that, although the simplicity of design of this font makes it match the Romanesque church in which is housed and made Regnier accept it as Romanesque itself, they argue that the font should be dated to the 16-17th cent., and most probably to the year 1602 or thereabouts, when "le curé Jean Brouault a entrepris quelques travaux de réfection" in this church (Vivier, 1941). The entry in the Dictionnaire des églises dates this font to the 16th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625552 5391990
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.668333, -1.294722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 40′ 6″ N, 1° 17′ 41″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: double-font
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 10)octagonal (large basin) 2) hexagonal (small basin)
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm* [main basin] -- 43 cm* [auxiliary basin]
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV B 166
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 65-66