Moitiers-d'Allonne / Les Moitiers-d'Allone / Les Moitiers-d'Allonne
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame et église Saint-Pierre des Moitiers-d'Allonne" -- Nore-Dame on the right; Saint-Pierre remaining tower on the left
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03378MOI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de Les Moitiers-d'Allonne
Font Location in Church: No longer in any church; now in a Barneville garden
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: two late-12thC churches documented here: St Mary and St Peter; when St Peter's was demolished in the 1920s its tower remaind as lighthouse/beacon
Church Address: 6 Rue des Deux Églises, 50270 Les Moitiers-d'Allonne, France [NB: the two churches are cheek-by-jowl on this location]
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Les Moitiers-d'Allone is located off the D904, 3-4 km N of Carteret. Barneville-Carteret is just E of Carteret
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Additional Comments: recycled font: Vivier-Seguin tried to deal with this elusive font, now in a private garden in Barneville. This granite font, an octagonal basin on an octagonal base, is believed to have come from one of the churches at Les Moitiers-d'Allone but, as V-S argue, both Notre-Dame (still active) and St-Pierre (demolished in 1909 except for the bell tower) had their fonts accounted for; at Notre-Dame, Seguin found a 18th century limestone oval basin and, at St-Pierre, in the yard, there was the debris of its limestone baptismal font made of a basin and base, both octagonal, with the date "1557" inscribed on the basin side. Consequently, argue V-S, the origin of this font must lie elsewhere, probably in Barneville itself, to whose church this font may have belonged (Vivier, 1941)
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) tried to deal with this elusive font, now [ca. 1941] in a private garden in Barneville. This granite font, an octagonal basin on an octagonal base, is believed to have come from one of the churches at Les Moitiers-d'Allone but, as V-S argue, both Notre-Dame (still active) and St-Pierre (demolished in 1920s except for the bell tower) had their fonts accounted for; at Notre-Dame, Seguin found a 18th century limestone oval basin and, at St-Pierre, in the yard, there was the debris of its limestone baptismal font made of a basin and base, both octagonal, with the date "1557" inscribed on the basin side. Consequently, argue V-S, the origin of this font must lie elsewhere, probably in Barneville itself, to whose church this font may have belonged (Vivier, 1941)
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 588582 5472790
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.401348, -1.779057
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 24′ 4.85″ N, 1° 46′ 44.6″ W
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, p. 92-93