Teilleul / Le Teilleul
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikmo-ned, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2010 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieLeTeilleulEgliseFontsBaptismaux.jpg] [accessed 29 March 2025]
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design element = motifs - ball - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikmo-ned, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2010 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieLeTeilleulEgliseFontsBaptismaux.jpg] [accessed 29 March 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Le Teilleul (Normandie, France). Les fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Patrice."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikmo-ned, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2010 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieLeTeilleulEgliseFontsBaptismaux.jpg] [accessed 29 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux et leur couvercle, vue générale"
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 B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP50W02183] [accessed 29 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03337TEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Patrice du Teilleul
Church Patron Saints: St. Patrick [aka Pádraig, Padrig, Patricius]
Church Location: Rue du Chanoine Paysant, 50640 Le Teilleul, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Le Teilleul is located off the D976, 19 km E of St-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, about 35 km NE of Fougères
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Renaissance
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe and illustrate this font as rectangular with the corners trimmed off, and a moulding at the top and bottom of the basin; below the basin sides the surface is chamfered and ornamented with half-ball motif (which V-S describe as "grosses perles"); the base is made of a series of mouldings tapering out; there is a drainage channel cut thorugh one of the long basin sides and upper base. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50001173]: "Fonts baptismaux et leur couvercle [...] Granite [...] Ces fonts sont dotés d'une double cuve [...] 15e siècle ; 16e siècle [...] H = 90 ; l = 113 ; la = 82 ; Dimensions à l'intérieur : h = 86, la = 55 [...] Choeur, bas-côté nord". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP50W02183].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.53878, -0.874679
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 32′ 19.61″ N, 0° 52′ 28.84″ W
UTM: 30U 656877 5378367
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 82 x 113 cm* [55 x 86 cm* inside]
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: rectangular fitted to the upper basin; single hinged door for access to the interior [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: 2025-03-29 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: 2025-03-29 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