Boinville-en-Mantois / Bovani villa
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Martin in Boinville-en-Mantois im Département Yvelines (Île-de-France/Frankreich)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFriehalter, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 28 October 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boinville-en-Mantois_Église_Saint-Martin_788.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04710BOI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: 11thC church; modified 14thC church; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00087371]
Church Address: 3 place de l'Eglise, 78930 Boinville-en-Mantois, France
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D158, 2 km SE of Guerville, Guerville, 9 km SE of Mantes-la-Jolie, 42 km from Versailles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Additional Comments: recycled font (the present font: limestone painted to imitate marble (can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!)) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed in Palissy: "Fonts baptismaux en pierre calcaire polychrome [...] Siècle de création: 18e siècle". A font here is noted among the "Eléments remarquables" in this church in the Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux [https://www.patrimoine-religieux.fr/eglises_edifices/78-Yvelines/78070-Boinville-en-Mantois/172198-EgliseSaint-Martin] [accessed 30 September 2023]. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000); it is rather common late font turned hedious by an attemp to make the limestone look like veined marble. The basin is rounded (oval?) with two inner wells and a flat wooden cover opening at both ends. The stem of the base is rounded and the lower base is square. Plain except for a few mouldings and the hellish paint-job.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 408962 5420404
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.92987, 1.75706
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 55′ 47.53″ N, 1° 45′ 25.42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: oval?
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 240