Roissy-en-France

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03939ROI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Eloi
Font Location in Church: At the entrance of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eligius [aka Éloi, Eloy, Loi]
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Gonesse, arrondissement de Montmorency
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as a pedestal font of the 17th century. The basin is round and has very wide but flat ribs under a scotia at top. The stem of the base is of two volumes, the upper, a narrow band with rectangular motif, and the rest of the stem, with fluting pattern on which one Maltese (?) cross.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 1, p. 322