Saint-Loup nr. Avranches

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: on both basins

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 - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: on both basins

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"

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 - drawing

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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view of font and context - north side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de Saint-Loup, Manche, France. Font-baptismal."

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 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

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

FontID: 03317LOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Loup de Saint-Loup

Church Patron Saints: St. Loup [5thC Bishop of Bayeux]

Church Location: Rue de l'Abbé Bécherel, 50300 Saint-Loup, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Saint-Loup is located off the D557, 7 km ESE of Avranches

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave

Date: ca. 1602?

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font

Church Notes: early-12thC church; modified 1602 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110588]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.668333, -1.294722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 40′ 6″ N, 1° 17′ 41″ W

UTM: 30U 625552 5391990

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)

Font Shape: Double-font

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (large basin) (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-

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-28 00:00:00. 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