Boissy-l'Aillerie No. 2
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symbol - cross - saltire - in a rectangle
Scene Description: on one of the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pontoise_(95),_musée_Tavet-Delacour,_fonts_baptismaux_de_Boissy-l'Aillerie,_IVe_ou_Ve_s..JPG] [accessed 28 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - circle or roundel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pontoise_(95),_musée_Tavet-Delacour,_fonts_baptismaux_de_Boissy-l'Aillerie,_IVe_ou_Ve_s..JPG] [accessed 28 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03935BOI
Object Type: Other
Object Details: bath-tub, Roman?
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 5th century, Early Christian
Museum: Musée Talvet-Delacour in Pontoise
Church / Chapel Name: orig. from the Église Saint-André, Boissy-l'Aillerie
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: [cf. Index entry for Boissy-l'Aillerie No. 1]
Church Address: 95659 Boissy-l'Aillerie, France
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D22-D92 crossroads, between Courcelles-sur-Viosne (WNW) and Osny (ESE), NW of Pontoise, 35 km NW of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Historical Region: Le Vexin français
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an ancient font found under the 11th century porch during the 13th century reconstruction of the church, and low located in the Tavet-Delcour in Pontoise. It is shaped like a small Roman bath-tub ("elle semble la réplique réduite d'une baignoire romaine de type classique") and was ceded to this museum by the Conseil Municipal de Boissy-l'Aillerie.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 429255 5436521
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.077478, 2.031274
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 4′ 38.92″ N, 2° 1′ 52.58″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: oval
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
REFERENCES
- Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 1, p. 123; v. 2, p. 716