Ferte-Bernard No. 1 / La Ferté-Bernard

Described and illustrated in the Inventaire général... (1983): 17th-century black-marble baptismal font donated to the church by Honorat Gomer in 1692; the font was repaired in 1845. The rather large basin is hemispheric with mouldings at the upper rim. The base is a square pedestal of the bulbous or "baluster" type. There is an odd-looking wooden cover or baldaquin on the font: it has three arch-like arms, leaving the sides open, which join at the top and end in an orb-and-cross finial. The font area is enclosed in a low metal railing.