Saint-Germain-de-Princay / Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay / St-Germain-de-Prinçay

Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine... de la Vendée (2001, v. 1: 139) as an old holy-water stoup recovered from the narthex of the church in the 1992 restoration; it is now in the choir and is used as a baptismal font. The same source suggests that it may have been a capital of the original building dated to the 10th or 11th century. It appears square at the top, with four large medallion-like motifs on the sides, one of which contains a Greek cross in a circle; it is raised on a square pedestal. Its shape resembles that of a group of Cornish fonts, one of them at Altarnun [cf. Index entry].