Chaise-Baudouin / La Chaise-Baudouin

INFORMATION

FontID: 03371CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Ouen de La Chaise-Baudouin
Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Location: Rue Baudouin de Mosles, 50370 La Chaise-Baudouin, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the A84, 13 km NE of Avranches in the canton Brécey
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century (?), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: St-Michel-de-Montjoi, also in Manche
Church Notes: 12thC earlier church; much damaged in the Wars of Religion; present church 17th-18thC
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

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

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