Prunay-en-Yvelines

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B01: design element - architectural - ring handle - 2

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04729PRU
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-la-Crèche-et-Saint-Gorgon
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Gorgon
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, arrondissement de Rambouillet
Font Location in Church: In the nave, at the back
Century and Period: , Gallo-Roman
Church Notes: The church houses a museum as well now.
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000) as a recently discovered limestone object looking like a "baignoire", probably Gallo-Roman; it looks very much like a bath-tub and is ornamented with a carved ring-handle on each of the long sides; the rim is badly damaged at several places. Now raised on a functional modern base, it serves, according to the same source, as baptismal font.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: obong
Basin Exterior Shape: oblong

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000