Hardricourt

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04718HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Germain-de-Paris de Hardricourt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Notes: 12th church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00087451]: "12e siècle"
Church Address: 7 Rue Émile Drouville, 78250 Hardricourt, France -- Tel.: +33 1 39 70 61 19
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D913, 25-30 km NNW of Versailles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Font Notes:
A very elegant and svelte baptismal font described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000), where it is dated to the first half of the 12th century when the church was built by Agnès de Montfort. It is a limestone font consisting of a square basin, rather shallow for the period, and ornamented with encircled leaf (palmette?) motif; the lower edge of the basin has a saw-thouth pattern. There is no underbowl nor chamfering either. Two slender columns support the basin; at the top they end in lovely capitals ornamented with roll moulding, acanthus leaves and a band of pearl motif; at the bottom another roll moulding and the bases of the columns are rounded with leaf motid at 90-degree angles. The plinth is cross-shaped

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 419158 5428934
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.008, 1.89454
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 0′ 28.8″ N, 1° 53′ 40.34″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: it appears to be a flat wooden lid

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 501
  • 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.