Buais
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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 an undated photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP50W00068] [accessed 28 March 2025]
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view of stoup
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Buais (Normandie, France). Le bénitier de l'église Sainte-Anne."
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03329BUA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Paterne [replaced by Sainte-Anne in mid-19thC]
Church Patron Saints: St. Paternus of Avranches [aka Padarn, Padarnus / Pair] / [St. Anne]
Church Location: Rte de Fougerolles, 50640 Buais-Les-Monts, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D46-D976 crossroads, 35-40 km SE of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side
Century and Period: 17th century (early), Renaissance
Church Notes: much deteriorated church of Saint-Paterne abandoned and replaced by Sainte-Anne in the mid-19thC in a new site; new church much damaged and restored thereafter
Although Pigeon had mentioned a double font at Buais in ca. 1887, by the time of Vivier-Seguin's work in ca. 1941, the font had been replaced by a modern one (Vivier, 1941). The entry for this church in Wikimanche [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Sainte-Anne_(Buais)] [accessed 28 March 2025] reports and illustrates also a 17th-century holy-water stoup in the new church; it is made of granite and is decorated with a soldier and a cross: "un bénitier (17e s.) en granit sculpté orné d'une croix et d'un soldat" [NB: actually an abbot or bishop]. The stoup is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50000152]: "Bénitier [...] Pierre [...] Ce bénitier est en forme de fût quandrangulaire. [...] H = 75 [...] 1ère moitié 17e siècle [...] Inscription (lecture incertaine) : DPHCA NIQUFR CANIOU QUINETIERE MESC RIP (lettres en relief entrelacées, sur deux des faces) [...] Nef, côté sud, près d'une porte, scellé dans une encoignure." The stoup is illustrated in [ref.: AP50W00068].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.52141,
-0.96982
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 31′ 17.08″ N,
0° 58′ 11.35″ W
UTM: 30U 649906 5376246
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "DPHCA NIQUFR CANIOU QUINETIERE MESC RIP"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941
