Ferte-Bernard No. 3 / La Ferté-Bernard

INFORMATION

FontID: 04527FER
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-des-Marais
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located on the RN23, in the arrondissement de Mamers
Font Location in Church: In the nave, front wall; right stoup
Century and Period: 17th - 19th century [composite stoup],
Described and illustrated in the Inventaire général... (1983) as one (the right) of two holy-water stoups made up of the credences from the old retable of the main altar which was dismantled in 1862; it now uses the part of the retable as backdrop, richly ornamented with architectural motifs, angel head, rosettes, etc., and has an inscription in a black-marble plaque [cf. Inscription]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone and marble
Font Shape: variant
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: variant
Notes on Measurements: The measurements given for the "construct": height=210 cm x width=145 cm (in the Inventaire général... 1983, p. 216)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on a plaque framed by the backdrop of the stoup
Inscription Text: "TV HONORIFICETIA POPVLI / NRI VIRGO SOSPITA / PASCE FOVE QVA HIC FLORES / CIVIVM PIETATEM"
Inscription Source: Inventaire général... (1983, p. 216)

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