Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron
INFORMATION
FontID: 03325SEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Senier de Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron
Church Patron Saints: St. Senier [aka Senator / Senerius / Sénier] [6thC Bishop of Coutances]
Church Location: 1 Pl. de l'Église, 50240 Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D108-D566 crossroads, 12 km S of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Abandoned, under a canopy
Century and Period: 12th - 17th century, Medieval / Baroque [composite]
Font Notes:
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Le Héricher (1845) had mentioned a font that was originally from the disappeared medieval church: "Les fonts se composent d’une cuve ronde accostée d’une piscine carrée. Il n’y a plus vestige de la primitive église." Vivier-Seguin (1941) report that the font described by Le Héricher as a round basin with a square "piscina" attached no longer exists; instead they found the round granite basin abandoned under a canopy ("abandonnée sous un auvent"); V-S suggest that it may have been a plain massive Romanesque basin to which a square addition was attached when the "fashion" of the double fonts hit this area, which Le Héricher timed with the restoration carried out on this church in the 16th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.576439, -1.310792
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 34′ 35.18″ N, 1° 18′ 38.85″ W
UTM: 30U 624595 5381750
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941