Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme
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view of church exterior - porch and portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme." -- showing a wall-mounted holy-water stouo on the right side of the image
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme."
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Giogo, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 July 2017 by Giogo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme_12.jpg] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03318QUE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Quentin de Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme
Church Patron Saints: St. Quentin [aka Quentin of Amiens, Quintin, Quintinus]
Church Location: Rue de la Croix du Chesnot, 50220 Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D78-D103 crossroads, near Saint-Loup -which has a similar font- about 8 km SE of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Saint-Loup
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 13th, 15th, 16th, 20thC
Vivier-Seguin (1941): double font similar to the one at St-Loup nearby, but in this one the basins hardly in contact at the top ("les deux fonts se touchent à peine par leur bord supérieur"); the larger basin is octagonal, the smaller considerably narrower, both with different bases but along the same general shape.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.647022,
-1.316372
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 38′ 49.28″ N,
1° 18′ 58.94″ W
UTM: 30U 624010 5389586
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: double font
Basin Exterior Shape: Octagonal (larger basin)
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941