Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye

INFORMATION

FontID: 03379SAU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Sauveur de Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ

Church Location: Rte de la Bougonnière, 50510 Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D375, 18-20 km NW of Avranches

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches

Font Location in Church: Now [ca.1941] serving as foot to the village road cross

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

Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 17th, 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Vivier-Seguin report that the octagonal basin of the old baptismal font, ornamented with a double torus, serves now as base for the cross situated on the road to Lair, about 1 km from the church of St-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye (Vivier, 1941)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.84608, -1.445076

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 50′ 45.89″ N, 1° 26′ 42.28″ W

UTM: 30U 614079 5411511

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941