Roncey

INFORMATION

FontID: 03360RON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale

Church Location: 50210 Roncey, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D58-D76 crossroads, 13 km SE of Coutances

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Coutances et Avranches

Historical Region: Le Coutançais / Le Bocage normand

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

Church Notes: 11th and 13thC church destroyed by bombing in 1944; "nouvelle église Saint-Côme-et-Saint-Damien est construite en pierre de Roncey à la fin des années 1950"

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Vivier-Seguin (1941) as an octagonal basin resting on an octagonal base and with a rectangular lower base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.9903, -1.3322

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 59′ 25.08″ N, 1° 19′ 55.92″ W

UTM: 30U 622008 5427718

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

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