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INFORMATION

FontID: 04465THI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Country Name: France

Location: Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located in the canton de (and 5 km from) Vic-sur-Cère, arrondissement d'Aurillac

Font Location in Church: First chapel on the N side

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Inventaire... (1984) as an octagonal baptismal font of the 15th or 16th century ornamented with mouldings; it is now under a 19th-century neo-Gothic "armoire" which bears a relief of the Baptism of Christ.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, andesite

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm

Notes on Measurements: Inventaire... (1984)

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Auvergne, Cantal: canton Vic-sur-Cère, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1984