Fecamp No. 2 / Fécamp / Fecamps
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03651FEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: Davonescourt
Site Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Fécamp is located about 45 km NE of Le Havre, on the NW Atlantic coast
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cloquet (1890) as a Renaissance version of the font type more commonly found in the Romanesque period. [cf. Index entry for Fécamp No. 1 for a lead font of the 13th century in the Benedictine Distillery]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 415