Frette-sur-Seine
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03941FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early)
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton d'Herblay, arrondissement d'Argenteuil
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as a plain round font of circa 1622; it is unclear whether the reference in the source implies that this font is a remake of the older one, or a totaly new one made when the old one was smashed by the fall of an overhead arch. The font appears to be of a very light limestone, a round basin mounted on a plain cylindrical column.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: Flat plain lid
REFERENCES
- Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 1, p. 377