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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: may have had figures inside the arches originally
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04708FRE
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Bonnières-sur-Seine, arrondissement de Mantes-la-Jolie
Date: 1275 to 1325?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: The present church dates from the 16th century but the original parish goes back to the 10th century (Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines, 2000, v. 1, p. 107)
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000) as an unmounted octagonal font dated between 1275 and 1325, from the old church. Tall trefoil arches rest on corinthian capitals and form a blind arcade which, according to the same source, contained high-relief figures originally. It is described as having a partioned well and an upper wooden basin on which the used water was collected during baptism [NB: this sink or 'évier' forms part of a set with the font cover proper]. Both the partition and the use of the added basin may have been a later addition.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 1, p. 107)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: combined inner basin and lid [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000