Cormery No. 2
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human figure - head - 4?
Scene Description: at least one has been broken off
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Image Source: digital photograph in Patrimoine-Histoire [www.patrimoine-histoire.fr/Patrimoine/Cormery/Cormery-Notre-Dame-de-Fougeray.htm] [accessed 13 March 2016]
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Scene Description: the porch over the west entrance is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mj.galais, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2015 by Mj.galais [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cormery-37-_l'Eglise_Notr-Dame-de-Fougeray_photo_n°54.JPG] [accessed 13 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04232COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Fougeray
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: chemin de l'Enclos, 37320 Cormery, France
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located 18 km SE of Tours down the N143
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097711] with date 12thC
Font Notes:
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Described by E. Pépin in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a 12th-century baptismal font ornamented with human masks. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM37000175] as a monolithic font of the 12th century. The monolithic font is bucket-shaped, with four grotesque (?) heads set at 90-degree angles of the upper basin side. Flat round cover with metal scroll on top and cross finial; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.2684, 0.8409
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 16′ 6.24″ N, 0° 50′ 27.24″ E
UTM: 31T 336680 5237252
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM37000175]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-