Pieux / Les Pieux

INFORMATION

FontID: 03345PIE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame des Pieux [aka Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption des Pieux]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Pl. du Calvaire, 50340 Les Pieux, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D4, 15-20 km SW of Cherbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century (?), Renaissance
Church Notes: 17thC church
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

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

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