Pieux / Les Pieux

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03345PIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century (?), Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame des Pieux [aka Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption des Pieux]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 17thC church
Church Address: Pl. du Calvaire, 50340 Les Pieux, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D4, 15-20 km SW of Cherbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Vivier-Seguin (141): large octagonal basin in beautiful granite ornamented only by a thin groove near the base, which is a broad cylindrical column; the lower base is flat and octagonal. The wooden cover is a low cone with an orb-and-cross finial. The entry for this church in Wikimanche [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Notre-Dame_(Les_Pieux)] [accessed 30 March 2025] reports a granite font: "fonts baptismaux en granite de Flamanville".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 586383 5485336
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.51449, -1.80663
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 30′ 52.16″ N, 1° 48′ 23.87″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

  • Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 80