Chapelle-Achard / La Chapelle-Achard

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05589CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation de la Chapelle-Achard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: The original church may have been was built in the 11thC; modified 1235
Church Address: Pl. de l'Église, 85150 Les Achards, France
Site Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D21, about 25 km NE of Les Sables-d'Olonne, about the same distance WSW of La Roche-sur-Yon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Luçon
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine... de la Vendée (2001, v. 2: 627) as a holy-water stoup of the 13th century, contemporary with the church built in 1235 [NB: this description and the dating should be taken 'cum grano salis'; the object illustrated in this source isnot a stoup but a double-font -usually characteristic of a later date in France; the larger volume being octagonal and the smaller cylindrical, both retaining their individual shapes down the pedestal of the base and the shape of the plinth]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 603637 5160551
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.590528, -1.647099
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 35′ 25.9″ N, 1° 38′ 49.55″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal 2) round

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vendée, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001, vol. 2, p. 627