Valmont

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04315VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Nicolas de Valmont
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: present church 1860 on the site of an earlier one
Church Address: 1 rue Domaine Lecroq, 76540 Valmont, France
Site Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D150, in the canton de Goderville, about 30 km NE of Le Havre
Font Notes:
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) simply as a baptismal font of the 13th century. The font listed in Palissy [reg.: PM76005259] and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP76W02943, AP76W02944] is described thus: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 16e siècle [...] Côté nord de la nef". The illustrations show what is obviously a much altered font; the outer square shape of the basin 'hides' a hemispherical basin visible through the four trefoiled arches opening on each of the four sides; the outer corners rest on four capitals that originally connected to the lower base with colonnettes, and there must have been a corresponding broad shaft in the centre; those columns, however, are lost and so is the whole lower base; instead a makeshift brick base has replaced the original. There is no cover visible but a metal staple from an old cover anchoring remains in the upper rim.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 320994 5513181
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.741997, 0.515224

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: metal inner basin lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV B 183
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.