Poissy No. 2
Results: 4 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04727POI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1690
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic stoup
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Notre-Dame à Poissy
Font Location in Church: Inside, S side, wall-mounted, "entre les deux portails Renaissance"
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: founded ca. 1016; re-built 12thC; closed by the Revolution; re-opened 1802; restored by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19thC
Church Address: 8 Rue de l'Église, 78300 Poissy, France -- Tel.: +33 1 39 65 01 82
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the arrondissement de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 10-12 km N of Versailles
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000) as one of three stoups in this church; two of them, outside [not listed in this Index], placed there by Viollet-le-Duc. This one is inside; the hemispherical basin is wall-mounted and has a rope moulding at the upper rim; the front side of the basin has a shield with a date, 1690, and a Greek cross betwenn the lettres L and C. This stoup is listed in Palissy [ref.: IM78002241]: "Bénitier [...] D'applique [...] Grès [...] 1690 [...] H =16 ; d =18 [...] Croix, écu [...] Bas-côté sud, 2e travée, sur le trumeau de la porte". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref,: IVR11_19967800124X]
There is a 31 August 2013 photograph of this stoup by Perre Poschadel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poissy_(78),_collégiale_Notre-Dame,_bénitier_de_1690.JPG [accessed 6 May 2025] [cf. Index entry for Poissy No. 1 for the remains of the baptismal font in which king Louis IX was baptised in this church]
There is a 31 August 2013 photograph of this stoup by Perre Poschadel https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poissy_(78),_collégiale_Notre-Dame,_bénitier_de_1690.JPG [accessed 6 May 2025] [cf. Index entry for Poissy No. 1 for the remains of the baptismal font in which king Louis IX was baptised in this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 429553 5420115
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.92995, 2.038189
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 55′ 47.82″ N, 2° 2′ 17.48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric, wall mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 18 cm* / **
Basin Total Height: 13 cm* / 16 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000, v. 2, p. 682) / ** Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin front, inside a shield
Inscription Text: "1690" and "LC" [with a Greek cross between them]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 682
- 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.