Mortain No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 03332MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise collégiale Saint-Évroult
Church Patron Saints: St. Ebrulf [aka Ebrulfus, Ebrulphus, Evroul, Evroult]
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located about 40 km E of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century / 17th century, Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: The holy water stoup in the same church
Church Notes: originally a Romanesque church of the late 11th centuryy -- See also the holy water stoup in the same church and the granite font in the chapel of the Hospice de Mortain, both listed in the Index.
Font Notes:
Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a stoup here that may have served as font earlier, and reports that the base is buried in the ground below. Described by Vivier-Seguin (1941) simply as being an octagonal baptismal font of large dimensions. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) dates the font to the 15th century

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.648472, -0.94194
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 38′ 54.5″ N, 0° 56′ 30.98″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Ruprich-Robert, V., "Bénitiers et fonts baptismaux du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance", II (1855), Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, pp. 289-290, Pl. XXVI; p. 290 and Pl. XXVI, fig. 3
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941