Sannois

INFORMATION

FontID: 03951SAN
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: In the canton de Sannois, arrondissement d'Argenteuil
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church Notes: There have been several churches through the centuries here; the one from the 15th century, from which the stoup comes, was replaced by a new building in the 17th century (Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise, 1999, v. 2, p. 811)
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as a holy-water stoup from the old church; the stoup itself is shaped like a shell but its basin is almost hemispherical rather than shallow. It now rests on a pedestal of later date.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: shell-shape
Basin Interior Shape: shell-shape
Basin Exterior Shape: shell-shape

REFERENCES

Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992