Sainte-Cecile nr. Avranches / Sainte-Cécile / St-Cécile

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sainte-Cécile (Normandie, France). L'église Sainte-Cécile."

Image Source: digital photograph 16 March 2019 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieSainteCecileEglise.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Cécile de fr:Sainte-Cécile (Manche)"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 April 2013 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte-Cécile_de_Sainte-Cécile,_Manche_-_Nef.JPG] [accessed 10 September 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03354CEC

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Cécile

Church Location: Pl. Georges Esnouf, 50800 Sainte-Cécile, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D924 [aka av. Emile Le charpentier], 3 km E of Villedieu-les-Poêles, about 23 km NE of Avranches

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance

Church Notes: 15thC church; modified 17th, 18thC

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Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe this font as having an octagonal basin whose tall underbowl ends in a torus and rests directly on the plinth. The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Cécile_(Manche)] [accessed 30 March 2025] reports a 17th-century font in it: "des fonts baptismaux du XVII".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.83573, -1.19054

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 50′ 8.63″ N, 1° 11′ 25.94″ W

UTM: 30U 632780 5410774

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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