Touvois

INFORMATION

FontID: 03961TOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-Fréligné
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest
Directions to Site: In the canton de Legé, arrondissement de Nantes
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as a granite double font and dated to the 13th century. All that remains now is the basin: the main basin is octagonal shape in the exterior and rounded on the interior; the secondary basin appears semicircular and much smaller, more like an appendix to the main one. The source [cf. supra] informs that the font was originally from an earlier church related to the priory of Val-de-Morière.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)(double-font)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (basin1) - round (basin2)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999