Mortain No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03332MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 17th century, Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: The holy water stoup in the same church
Church / Chapel Name: Église collégiale Saint-Évroult
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Ebrulf [aka Ebrulfus, Ebrulphus, Evroul, Evroult]
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.
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 40 km E of Avranches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.648472, -0.94194
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-, IV B 116
- 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, p. 70