Maurepas

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04717MAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century (late)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font -- heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Sauveur de Maurepas
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ
Church Notes: former manor chapel built in wood in the 9thC; rebuil in stone in the 11thC; restored 16th and 17thC; replaced by new church in 1970
Church Address: 1 Rue de l'Église, 78310 Maurepas, France
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D13, 18-20 km E of Versailles, about 30 km NNE of Rambouillet
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000) as a double-font of the 16th century, donated to the church by Jean du Fay, duc de Chevreuse. It appears monolithic with an irregular shape: the larger basin is octagonal and well-defined, its underbowl ornamented with large leaves and the coat of arms of the donor on one basin side; the auxiliary basinette appears rounded and flat; the same source describes the inside wells as oval; the base is rough and polygonal and a plain oval lower base; the whole has been painted to give it a coppery marble tone ["l'aspect d'un marbre cuivré"]. Font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM78000366]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire [...] H = 91 ; la = 102 [...] 4e quart 16e siècle [...] Armes de Jean du Fay, seigneur de Chevreuse et de Maurepas au 16e siècle [...] Nef, mur ouest". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP78W00482]. Find an 11 September 2016 photograph of this font by Lomita in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L0515_-_Église_Saint-Sauveur_de_Maurepas_-_Vase_baptismale.jpg] [accessed 6 May 2025]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 420721 5402804
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.773188, 1.920982
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 46′ 23.48″ N, 1° 55′ 15.53″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: oval (both basins?)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 102 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood?
Apparatus: mo
Notes: flat and plain; fitted to the shape of the two basins

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 489
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.