Montsurvent

INFORMATION

FontID: 03346MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de Montsurvent
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin
Church Location: Le Bourg, 50200 Gouville-sur-Mer, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D2-D68 crossroads, in the municipality of Gouville-sur-Mer, 9-10 km NW of Coutances, 6 km from the sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: medieval church documented ca. 1251, probably of wood, disappeared; present church 14thC much modified 16th and 18thC
Font Notes:
Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe and illustrate a rather squat and plain font with an octagonal basin, chamferred underbowl and broad cylindrical base, to which was added a tall pyramidal wooden cover with a ball as finial, as V-S put it, "pour corriger l'inélégance de ces fonts de faible hauteur". The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montsurvent#cite_ref-Gautier2014420_5-1] [accessed 30 March 2025] report a font of the 16th century in it: "fonts baptismaux (XVIe)".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.11521, -1.498237
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 6′ 54.76″ N, 1° 29′ 53.65″ W
UTM: 30U 609587 5441349

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
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