Meurdraquiere / La Meurdraquière

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin de la Meurdraquière"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03352MEU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de La Meurdraquière
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin
Church Location: 3 Pl. de la Mairie, 50510 La Meurdraquière, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D145E, about 10 km SW of Gavray, half-way [+/- 30 km] between Avranches and Coutances
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Outside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century (?), Renaissance
Church Notes: 13thC church; 15thC octagonal tower -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA50000036]: "Eglise construite à la jonction des 13e et 14e siècles, se composant d'une nef unique, d'une chapelle nord, d'une croisée et d'un choeur terminé par un chevet plat. L'édifice, par sa tour de croisée, est représentatif des églises de la région."
Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe this font as a plain granite octagonal basin mounted on a cylindrical column; at their time (ca. 1941) it had been moved from the parish church out to the village crossroads. The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Saint-Martin_de_La_Meurdraquière] [accessed 30 March 2025] reports a 16th-century font in it: "fonts baptismaux (XVIe siècle)". Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50013313]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Granite [...] Limite 16e siècle 17e siècle [...] Oeuvre déposée [...] Ancienne cuve baptismale déposée dans le cimetière."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.849282, -1.407984
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 50′ 57.41″ N, 1° 24′ 28.74″ W
UTM: 30U 616793 5411923

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-30 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