Thoureil / Le Thoureil
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Image Source: Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 4 on p. 538)
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Image Source: Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 4 on p. 538)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03693THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Genulf [later Saint-Charles?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Genulf [aka Genolf, Genou, Genulfe]
Church Location: 5 Rue du Mail, 49350 Gennes-Val-de-Loire, France -- Tel.: +33 2 41 51 80 04
Country Name: France
Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D156, on the W banks of the Loire river, about 25 km SE of Angers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at Amiens for the shape, not the size
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109373]
Font Notes:
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Viollet-le-Duc gives this font, which he illustrates, as an example of 12th century fonts "de forme barlongue" [i.e., oblong], such as this and the much larger one at the cathedral of Amiens. The base consists of a cluster of three cylindrical columns in line, on very short square plinths. (Dictionnaire..., t. 5, 1875, p. 536-537 and ill. 4 on p. 538). Viollet-le-duc (ibid.) refers to a related 13th-century font at Limay, but we find them totally different; the other font of this shape in France -also mentioned in Viollet-le-duc- is the one at the cathedral in Amiens [cf. Index entry]. Described in Esquié (1880: 6n) as "une petite cuve barlongue qui date du onzième siècle" [=a little oblong font dating to the 11th century] in the church at Thouveil.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.371500, -0.265502
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 22′ 17″ N, 0° 15′ 56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Trapezoidal Basin: 105 x 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *[NB: Viollet-le-duc gives only the length of the basin; if his drawing is to scale, the width is 76 cm]
REFERENCES
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; p. 6n
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868