Courceboeufs / Corcebois / Courcebœufs / Curcesbot
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inscription
Scene Description: on the front side of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by the Musée de Tessé - Musées du Mans (Le Mans), in Mémoire [ref.: AP72W00540] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1262/sap83_72w00540_p.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2017]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2014 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courcebœufs_-_Église_Notre-Dame-des-Anges_02.JPG] [accessed 26 June 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musée de Tessé - Musées du Mans (Le Mans) - Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2008
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by the Musée de Tessé - Musées du Mans (Le Mans), in Mémoire [ref.: AP72W00540] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1262/sap83_72w00540_p.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05888COU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-des-Anges
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 72290 Courcebœufs, France
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the CR3-CR10-CR13 crosroads, between Saint-Mars-sous-Ballon (N) and Savigné-l'Évêque (S), NNE of Le Mans
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century,
Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM72000210]: "Socle : forme un octogone constitué de deux grands côtés et de six plus petits. Pied : construit sur le même plan que le socle, en léger retrait ; se raccorde avec celui-ci et avec la partie supérieure par des surfaces courbes, dont la concavité est tournée vers l'extérieur. Cuve : aussi sur le même plan que la partie inférieure, offre sur son pourtour une surface courbe en S très ouvert. Couvercle : en bois, surmonté d'une croix avec supports courbes, en fer forgé [...] Inscription : G. Launay curé de céans (gravée en caractères gothiques sur la face du couvercle) [...] 16e siècle". Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des comunes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 86) as an octagonal oblong baptismal font of the 16th century, the front and back sides much large than the others; the base, which is made of several blocks, has the same shape as the basin but it is narrower. The font side of the basin bears an incised inscription with the name of the donor: "G. Launay curé de Ciens". The basin has several large cracks which have been repaired; the material is identified in Le patrimoine des... (ibid.) as "calcaire de Bernay-en-Champagne".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.1367,
0.2872
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 8′ 12.12″ N,
0° 17′ 13.92″ E
UTM: 48.1367, 0.2872
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (from Bernay-en-Champagne)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) [irregular]
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal [irregular]
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [irregular]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: French
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "G. Launay curé de céans"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain octagonal wooden platform with metal cross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001
