Touvois
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03961TOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-Fréligné
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Legé, arrondissement de Nantes
Font Notes:
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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: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal 2) round
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999, vol. 1, p. 495