Jouy-le-Comte

INFORMATION

FontID: 03955JOU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité-Saint-Leu

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Country Name: France

Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France

Directions to Site: In the canton de l'Hautil, arrondissement de Pontoise; just NW of l'Isle-Adam, NE of Pontoise

Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic

Cognate Fonts: Similar font at Nesles-la-Vallée (Val-d'Oise)

Font Notes: Click to view

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