Chaise-Baudouin / La Chaise-Baudouin

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03371CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century (?), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: St-Michel-de-Montjoi, also in Manche
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Ouen de La Chaise-Baudouin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Notes: 12thC earlier church; much damaged in the Wars of Religion; present church 17th-18thC
Church Address: Rue Baudouin de Mosles, 50370 La Chaise-Baudouin, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A84, 13 km NE of Avranches in the canton Brécey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Described in Vivier-Seguin (1941) a font similar to the one at St-Michel-de-Montjoie: plain granite Renaissance with octagonal basin, base and lower base; the wooden cover is shaped like a flat dome. The entry for this church in Wikimanche [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Saint-Ouen_(La_Chaise-Baudouin)] [accessed 31 March 2025] reports a 16th-century font made of granite: "Les fonts baptismaux à pans coupés en granite datent du 16e siècle."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 629585 5402890
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.76552, -1.23655
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 45′ 55.87″ N, 1° 14′ 11.58″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
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, p. 90