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design element - patterns - ribbed

INFORMATION

FontID: 03905HER
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Vanne
Church Patron Saints: St. Vanne
Country Name: France
Location: Meuse, Grand Est
Directions to Site: In the canton de Fresnes-en-Woëvre, arrondissement de Verdun, about 20 kms ESE from Verdun
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,
Church Notes: The church is originally from the mid-16th century but it underwent a massive rebuilding in 1927 (Le Patrimoine des communes de la Meuse (1999, v. 1, p. 446)
Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de la Meuse (1999, v. 1, p. 447) as a 17th century baptismal font. Although roughly chalice-shaped, it is rather inelegant and heavy-looking, its ornamentation consisting chiefly of a ribbed pattern around the underbowl and a thin moulding half-way down the stem of the base. According to our source (cf. supra), it was originally from the old 16th-century church, but spent many years half-buried in the ground at the place des Platanes, until finally returned to the church in 1995.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 66 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le Patrimoine des communes de la Meuse (1999, v. 1, p. 447)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Meuse, Paris: FLOHIC, 1999