Saint-Etienne-de-Chigny / Saint-Étienne-de-Chigny
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: around the upper basin sides
design element - motifs - geometric
Scene Description: around the upper basin sides, small basin
design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: window-like tracery painted on the sides of the font cover
human figure - head - 2
Scene Description: back to back, on the link between the two basins
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duch.seb, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2012 by Duch.seb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_du_Vieux_Bourg_01.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 04243ETI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Étienne [aka Eglise du vieux Bourg]
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: viex bourg, 37230 Saint-Étienne-de-Chigny, France -- Tel.: 02 47 42 20 38
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located just SW of Luynes, 12 km W of Tours
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Historical Region: Centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church Notes: church originally 13thC; re-built 15th-16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00098076]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a baptismal of the 16th century; its pyramidal wooden lid is ornamented with Gothic windows. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 895) as a double baptismal font of the 16th century; the two parts, main and secundary, are formed as independent objects, the main being taller than the other; they are linked at the basin side, the link being shaped like two human heads, back-to-back. The basins are round and ornamented with geometric and other motifs; the bases are octagonal at the top and square in the main part. The octagonal font cover is shaped like a church tower.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
47.3841,
0.5266
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
47° 23′ 2.76″ N,
0° 31′ 35.76″ E
UTM: 31T 313312 5250831
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (double-font)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001