Badonvilliers

INFORMATION

FontID: 04542BAD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Country Name: France

Location: Meuse, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located at the crossing of the D168 and D193, 7 km from, and in the canton de Gondrecourt-le-Château, arrondissement de Commercy

Font Location in Church: In the nave

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Inventaire général... (1981) as a limestone baptismal font probably of the 16th or 17th century; octagonal basin and base raised on a square lower base.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 47 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm

Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1981)

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale de Lorraine, Meuse: canton Gondrecourt-le-Château, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1981