Genicourt / Génicourt
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03953GEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de la Vallée-du-Sausseron, arrondissement de -and just N of- Pontoise
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval-shaped font of the 15th-16th century. The basin is plain except for a double torus at the upper side of the basin; there is visible damage to the upper rim. A polygonal base (octagonal?) appears clumsily cemented to it. It is covered with a plain flat wooden lid.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: oval (nounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 2, p. 894