Cormes

INFORMATION

FontID: 04523COR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Denis

Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]

Country Name: France

Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire

Directions to Site: Located in the canton de -and 4.5 km from- La Ferté-Bernard, in the arrondissement de Mamers

Font Location in Church: West side of the nave, on the right

Century and Period: 17th century

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Inventaire général... (1983) as an oval basin mounted on a square pedestal base of the bulbous or baluster type; the inside of the basin well does not have the two or more compartments typical of many French oval fonts of this and later periods. The woden font cover is flat. This church has also an early 18th-century marble holy-water stoup (dated 1708) mounted on a metal frame [not indexed here].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: pedestal font

Basin Interior Shape: oval

Basin Exterior Shape: oval

Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm (longest diam.)

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1983)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale des Pays de la Loire, Sarthe: canton La Ferté-Bernard, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1983