Lorleau

INFORMATION

FontID: 04537LOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Country Name: France

Location: Eure, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located on the D132, 2.5 km N of, and in the canton de Lyons-la-Fôret, arrondissement Les Andelys

Font Location in Church: West end of the nave, north side

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Inventaire général... (1976) as a 15th-century (probably) octagonal mounted baptismal font. The base is octagonal with vertical sides. The lower base is also octagonal.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm

Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1976)

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale de Haute Normandie, Eure: canton Lyons-la-Forêt, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1976