Cordemais

INFORMATION

FontID: 03970COR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: France
Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest
Directions to Site: In the canton de Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc, arrondissement de Saint-Nazaire
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: [cf. Notes on Font]
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as a stoup from the ancient church, the existence of which is recorded since 1051, but believed to have existed as early as 370 A.D. The rectangular granite basin is dated by the same source [cf. supra] to the 10th-11th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Total Height: 50 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 50 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 80 x 80 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999, v. 2, p. 1038)

REFERENCES

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