Caudebec-en-Caux
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05784CAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de Notre-Dame de Caudebec-en-Caux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church built on the site of the Merovingian abbey church of the former female abbey of Logium
Church Address: Pl. du Parvis, 76490 Rives-en-Seine, France -- Tel.: +33 2 35 96 23 34
Site Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D982, between Rouen (SE) and Le Havre (W)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rouen
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 104) as a late octagonal mounted font; the upper rim sides has two mouldings; the basin side has a band of short round arches that look like loops, and there is a thin-ribbed pattern all the way down the underbowl; the pedestal of the base appears cylindrical and has four handle-like S motifs protruding at 90-degree angles. The font cover is quite tall, about three times the height of the font itself [therefore about 3 m. tall if the font is of regular size]; it has three volumes: the lower is of the "rim-buffet" type and it has the width of the upper rim of the font; the middle volume is of the same shape but narrower; the third volume is also octagonal but in the shape of a high dome. The figural finial appears to be a baptism scene in which a tall figure with a crozier-and-banner appears to be poring water over a smaller figure next to it. The two lower volumes of the cover are ornamented with scenes [undiscernible in the source] and the upper one has the Sun, the Moon and many stars all over it. Font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM76001994].
The font and its rim-buffet cover are illustrated in a series of photographs in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_fonts_of_Église_Notre-Dame_(Caudebec-en-Caux) [accessed 9 May 2025]
The font and its rim-buffet cover are illustrated in a series of photographs in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_fonts_of_Église_Notre-Dame_(Caudebec-en-Caux) [accessed 9 May 2025]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 335512 5488547
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.5272, 0.726944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 31′ 37.92″ N, 0° 43′ 37″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: tall rim-buffet type [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, ill. on p. 104