Arnouville-les-Mantes / Arnouville-lès-Mantes

INFORMATION

FontID: 04709ARN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Aignan
Church Patron Saints: St. Aignan [aka Agnan, Aignan of Orleans, Anianus]
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Guerville, arrondissement de Mantes-la-Jolie
Font Location in Church: At the entrance
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated without a date in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000), as being used as a holy-water stoup by the entrance to the church; the same source suggests that the basin, round on the outisde but with six concave lobes on the inside, may have been the original baptismal font. It is now mounted on a polygonal (six?) stem and round lower base. The outside of the basin may have been recut or re-tooled.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: poly-lobed (6)
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000