Arnouville-les-Mantes / Arnouville-lès-Mantes
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04709ARN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Aignan d'Arnouville-lès-Mantes
Font Location in Church: At the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Aignan [aka Agnan, Aignan of Orleans, Anianus]
Church Address: 16 Rue de la Beurron. 78790 Arnouville-lès-Mantes, France
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D65-D130 crossroads, about 11 km S of Mantes-la-Jolie
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Additional Comments: recycled stoup? / retooled font?: The outside of the basin may have been recut or re-tooled.
Font Notes:
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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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 407054 5418302
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.91068, 1.7315
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 54′ 38.45″ N, 1° 43′ 53.4″ E
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, vol. 1, p. 234