Equeurdreville / Équeurdreville

INFORMATION

FontID: 03369EQU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption d'Equeurdreville
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 55a Rue de la République, 50120 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located in the NW banlieu of Cherbourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: In the presbitery garden (ca. 1941)
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: church here mentioned 1055; documented 1145; renovated 19thC
Font Notes:
Vivier-Seguin (1941): plain limestone Renaissance font with octagonal basin and upper base and a square lower base; it was replaced as the baptismal font by a new one (neo-Gothic) but the old one has been kept in the presbitery garden. The two fonts are noted in this church intry in Wikimanche [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption_(Équeurdreville-Hainneville)] [accessed 31 March 2025]: "fonts baptismaux en marbre du XIXe siècle, ainsi que les fonts baptismaux en pierre calcaire de l'ancien édifice".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.648333, -1.654722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 38′ 54″ N, 1° 39′ 17″ W
UTM: 30U 597112 5500401

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (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