Vernie

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: on alternate sides of the basin

B02: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: two, one up one down, on alternate sides of the basin

INFORMATION

FontID: 05891VER
Church/Chapel: Eglise St-Médard
Church Patron Saints: St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, arrondissement de Mamers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des comunes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 199) as an octagonal unmounted baptismal font ornamented with Gothic windows on the sides; on alternate sides: 1)triple Ogee arch topped with quatrefoil window and 2)two quatrefoil-window-in-a-circle motifs, one up one down. Damage obvious to one of the upper basin sides, probably through the removal of cover staples. Wooden flat cover is modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001