Caen No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04697CAE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Museum: Musée des antiquaires de Normandie [form. Musée de la Société française d'archéologie]
Church / Chapel Name: [now in a museum]
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] 17 Rue Guillaume le Conquérant 14000 Caen
Site Location: Marne, Grand-Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the historical centre of Caen, towards the N, just S of the Chateau
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Lasteyrie (1929) as one of a group of early -11th-12th century- French fonts of tub-shape design; this one has a large and very regular pattern of interlace with three-strand bands, their upper and lower loops crossed by another three-strand band, one at top and the other at the bottom of the basin. One of the sides of the basin shows considerable damage. The font is listed in Lasteyrie's time [ca. 1929] at the Musée de la Société française d'archéologie in Caen. [NB: there is another early font, an octagonal lead font, listed by Enlart (1902) and Huard (1928) at the "Musée de Caen." - cf. Index entry for Le Mesnil-Mauger].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 691790 5450911
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.180999, -0.368173
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 10′ 51.59″ N, 0° 22′ 5.42″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, p. 699 and fig. 708