Breancon No. 1 / Bréançon
INFORMATION
FontID: 03948BRE
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien
Church Patron Saints: St. Crispin and St. Crispinian [aka Crépin et Crépinien]
Church Location: 9 rue du Presbytère, 95640 Bréançon, France
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D64 [aka rue del'Eglise], 3 km E of Marines, 10-12 km NW of Pontoise
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Font Location in Church: At the entrance, wall-mounted on a column
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: The church is mostly 13th and 16th century but the stoup and a capital are dated to the 12th century, the date of the original consecration (Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise, 1999, v. 2, p. 627) -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080009]
Font Notes:
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Listed [Palissy PM95000090] and illustrated [Mémoire APMH049159]: "Font baptismaux [...] Cuve de forme hexagonale ornée d'arcatures, surmontée d'une frise de feuillage, portée par un pied hexagonal avec large boudin sur les arêtes [...] 1er quart 16e siècle [cuve] [...] Pied moderne qui s'écarte sous le poids de la cuve. Présence de salpêtre à la jonction de la cuve et du pied."
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as a wall-mounted stoup of the 12th century approximately. It is hemispheric externaly with a very shallow well; the upper sides of the basin curl inwards at the back.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.14286, 2.02195
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 8′ 34.3″ N, 2° 1′ 19.02″ E
UTM: 31U 428668 5443798
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992