Cormes

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04523COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Denis de Cormes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side of the nave, on the right
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109724]
Church Address: Rue de la Fontaine, 72400 Cormes, France
Site Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the C116, in the canton de -and 4.5 km from- La Ferté-Bernard, in the arrondissement de Mamers
Font Notes:
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].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 329266 5337669
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.16931, 0.70361
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 10′ 9.52″ N, 0° 42′ 13″ E

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, p. 163