Jouy-le-Comte
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03955JOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Similar font at Nesles-la-Vallée (Val-d'Oise)
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-Saint-Leu
Church Patron Saint(s): The Nativity of St. Mary
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de l'Hautil, arrondissement de Pontoise; just NW of l'Isle-Adam, NE of Pontoise
Font Notes:
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Mentioned in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval mounted font of the 13th century similar to the one at Nesles-la-Vallée [cf. Index entry for the latter]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
REFERENCES
- Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 2, p. 907