Cosseuil

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05216COS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Clisson (France) [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale
Church Address: site not located
Site Location: Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: site not located
Font Notes:
Listed in Swann (1887: 76) as a font "with appendage". Noted in Saintenoy (1891-1892): "les fonts à appendices cités' par de Caumont et signalés par Miss Emma Swann à Quimper (Finistère), Chirens, Saint-Nicolas de Macherin, Cosseuil (Isère) [...] les fonts de Clisson (Loire-Inférieure) (fîg. 17), et de Cosseuil (Isère); signalés par Miss Emma Swann procèdent d'un type ancestral semblable aux fonts de Dinas Mowddwy." [NB: a footnote in Saintenoy makes reference to a "M. Woillez", probably Eugène Joseph Woillez]. Listed in Bond (1908: 63, 66) as one of a group of double-fonts in which "the little cup-shaped hollow may project from the rim".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: double-font

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 67
  • Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 73 and fn7
  • Saintenoy, Paul, "Prolégomènes à l'étude de la filiation des fonts baptismaux, depuis les baptistères jusqu'au XVIe siècle", 5-6, Annales de la Société royale d'archéologie de Bruxelles, 1891-1892, pp. 5 (243-281; 6 (69-157); p. 254, 268
  • Swann, E., "Fonts of Unusual Shape, with Appendages", 1887, Proceedings of the Historical Society, 1887, pp. 67-82; p. 76