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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 12

Scene Description: with inserts, a/p Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000)

B02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: several, each different, one in each of some of the quatrefoil windows, a/p Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000)

B03: animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: in one of the quatrefoil windows, a/p Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000)

LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: two or three arches in each of the twelve sides, a/p Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000)

R01: design element - motifs - garland

Scene Description: at the upper rim side, a/p Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04339MON
Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located near Houdan, 28 km NW of Rambouillet
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Gassicourt, Mantes, Vétheuil, Limay
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) simply as a 13th century sculptured baptismal font. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000), where it is compared to the fonts at Limay and Vétheuil. Though of a general oval shape it actually is dodecagonal, also like the Limay font, and has similar though not identical ornamentation: a garland at the upper rim side (some damage where the staples have been removed( ?)); the register below the rim has quatrefoil windoes with rosette inserts, although one appears to be a lion head. The level below, equivalent to the base, has thin, tall, round arches all around. Early fonts of this general oval shape are not rare in this area of France [cf. Index entry for St. Loup-de-Naud, etc.]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: oval-dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: a flat wooden lid that appears modern

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000