Notre-Dame-du-Touchet / Thuscheio / Toscheit / Toschet / Tuscheto / Tuschueio

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église paroissiale Notre-Dame, à Notre-Dame-du-Touchet"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2011 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre-Dame-du-Touchet_(50)_Église_01.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Notre-Dame-du-Touchet"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 Fberuary 2012 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Notre-Dame-du-Touchet_(2).JPG] [accessed 10 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Intérieur de l'église Notre-Dame, à Notre-Dame-du-Touchet"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2011 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre-Dame-du-Touchet_(50)_Église_02.jpg] [accessed 10 August 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03320NOT

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 18 Le Bourg, 50140 Mortain-Bocage, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D45-D84 crossroads, 4 km E of Lapenty, in the municipality and 6-7 km S of Mortain-Bocage

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

Cognate Fonts: Saint-Jean-du-Corail, nearby

Church Notes: church here documented mid-12thC; present church 16thC with later modifications

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Vivier-Seguin (1941) report a similar font to the one in neighbouring Saint-Jean-du-Corail: rectangular basin with double well inside but without any exterior sign of it; the lower part shaped like a truncated pyramid, and simple mouldings at bottom; it is supported on two plain quadrangular blocks, the upper larger than the lower. V-S suggest that the font could very well be dated either to after the major restoration of the church ca. 1537 or after the religious wars which so badly affected this area. There is an old holy-water stoup in an interior corner, perhaps a re-purposed object [cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.58246, -0.95681

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 34′ 56.86″ N, 0° 57′ 24.52″ W

UTM: 30U 650685 5383057

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)

Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: double basins

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

REFERENCES

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