Roissy-en-France

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: flat and very wide

LB01: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese

Scene Description: on one of the sides, on the fluting pattern

LB03: design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: all around the stem

INFORMATION

FontID: 03939ROI
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Eloi
Church Patron Saints: St. Eligius [aka Éloi, Eloy, Loi]
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: In the canton de Gonesse, arrondissement de Montmorency
Font Location in Church: At the entrance of the nave
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance
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