Louresse-Rochemenier No. 2 / Rochemenier

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2005 by BrokenSphere [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte-Madeleine_et_Saint-Jean,_Louresse-Rochemenier_exterior.JPG] [accessed 18 September 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: INT E digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Romain Bréget [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louresse-Rochemenier_-_Eglise_3.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019] partial view of the font in the bottom-right corner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2008 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louresse-Rochemenier_église_Rochemenier_(11).JPG] [accessed 18 September 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Romain Bréget [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louresse-Rochemenier_-_Eglise_3.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]

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view of font and stoup

Scene Description: a partial view of the font on the bottom-left corner -- a partial view of the stoup on the bottom-right corner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Romain Bréget [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louresse-Rochemenier_-_Eglise_3.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04240LOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Madeleine et Saint-Jean de Rochemenier [originally Chapelle Sainte-Emérance]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene & St. John

Church Location: 12-14 Rue du Musée, 49700 Louresse-Rochemenier, France

Country Name: France

Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D177, 6 km N of Doué-la-Fontaine, about 15-20 km W of Saumur

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side

Century and Period: 17th century, Late Renaissance? / Baroque?

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109160] as "Chapelle Sainte-Emérance, puis église paroissiale de la Madeleine et Saint-Jean [...] La chapelle Sainte-Emérance de fondation inconnue, prend le vocable de la Madeleine et saint Jean à la fin du 16e siècle lors de la destruction de l'église paroissiale voisine du pont de Varennes ; la façade ouest du 15e siècle ; a été reprise au 17e siècle ; la nef est du 16e siècle ; le choeur est du 17e siècle"

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The present parish church was a originally a chapel; it became parochial when the older church was destoyed in the 16th-century religious wars. The present font is made of a bluish-grey limestone, and consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a pedestal base; the shape of the inner basin, divided into two round basins and smaller compartments for the holy oils, indicates this is probably a modern font, of the reconstruction period and not, as some local information suggested, a re-cycled font from the old church. Across the nave from the font, by the south doorway is a large holy-water stoup also on the bluish-grey limestone as the font, and probably made to be a pair with it. [cf. BSI entry for Louresse-Rochemenier No. 1]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.232931, -0.295682

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 13′ 58.55″ N, 0° 17′ 44.45″ W

UTM: 30T 704696 5234597

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: double basins - round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-