Baleine / La Baleine
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Litre Funéraire de Simon et Léonor de Saint-Germain (XVIIIe), Église Saint-Pierre de La Baleine" -- showing the font partially, at the end of the right [north] bank of pews
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carl Hardwick de Beaumont, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 3 March 2021 by Carl Hardwick de Beaumont [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Litre_Funéraire_Eglise_Saint-Pierre_La_Baleine.jpg] [accessed 30 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03350BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de La Baleine
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Le Bourg, 50450 La Baleine, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D238, 4 km NE of Gavray-sur-Sienne, about 20 km SE of Coutances, 17 km W of the sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 16th century (?), Renaissance
Church Notes: 16thC church
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe and illustrate this font as "d'une simplicité peu commune": a large plain octagonal basin has a chamferred underbowl and rests directly on a squat column; wooden flat cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.924444, -1.317778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 55′ 28″ N, 1° 19′ 4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941