Parmain

Results: 2 records

BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a/p source identification

LBS01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: at the lower base corners

INFORMATION

FontID: 03944PAR
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Denis
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: In the canton d'Isle-Adam, arrondissement de Pontoise
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as a chalice-shaped font and dated to the 13th century. The hemispheric basin has a band of foliage around the upper side; the rest and the underbowl are plain. The stem of the base is a broad column with torus at top and bottom; the lower base is square with foliage ornamentation at the corners. The flat wooden lid appears modern. Listed also in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ), although the name of the church is given as "Église de Jouy-le-Comte"

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992