Torigni-sur-Vire / Thorigny-sur-Vire
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torigni-sur-Vire : église Saint-laurent, les fonts baptismaux."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Godefroy, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2022 by Roland Godefroy [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Fichier:Torigni-StLaurent-fontsbapt1.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2023]
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symbol - shield - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Godefroy, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 July 2022 by Roland Godefroy [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Fichier:Torigni-StLaurent-fontsbapt1.jpg] [accessed 25 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torigny-les-Villes (Manche, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2019 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Laurent_de_Torigni-sur-Vire._Vue_nord-ouest.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 25 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torigny-les-Villes (Manche, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 August 2019 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Laurent_de_Torigni-sur-Vire._Vue_sud-est.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 25 November 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torigny-les-Villes (Manche, France)"
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torigny-les-Villes (Manche, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2019 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_de_l'église_Saint-Laurent_de_Torigni-sur-Vire.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 25 November 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03356THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: St-Denis-le-Vêtu, also in Manche
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Laurent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: 11thC church; modified 1400 and 1601; restored 2011
Church Address: Rue Robert du Mont, 50160 Torigny-les-Villes, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D13-D974 crossroads, in the municipality of Torigny-les-Villes, 13 km SE of Saint-Lô, 25 km N of Vire-Normandie
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches
Historical Region: Pays saint-lois, Bocage Normand
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here
Font Notes:
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Described by Vivier-Seguin (1941) as very similar to the font at St-Denis-le-Vêtu: octagonal basin has a single shield on one of the sides and long chamferred underbowl; octagonal pedestal base and wooden pyramidal cover with globe and cross finial [NB: recent photographs show the finial without a cross [cf. ImagesArea].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 647630 5433256
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.034373, -0.980459
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 2′ 3.74″ N, 0° 58′ 49.65″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
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, p. 84-85