Mezieres-sous-Lavardin / Mézières-sous-Lavardin

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - architectural - window

Scene Description: of several types, all around the sides of the basin

R01: design element - motifs - ball - 24

Scene Description: three on each side of the octagonal-shaped upper rim

INFORMATION

FontID: 05893MEZ
Church/Chapel: Eglise St-Pierre-et-St-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Conlie, arrondissement du Mans
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Similar in general design and ornamentation to the font at Vernie, also in Sarthe
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des comunes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 419) as an octagonal unmounted baptismal font ornamented with Gothic windows of several types on the sides. It is similar in general design and ornamentation to the font at Vernie, in the canton de Mamers, also in Sarthe, but unlike the latter, this font has a row of ball motif right on the upper rim, all around. A flat wooden font with an old-style lock [a long iron bar goes over the wooden lid and locks into staples at opposite sides of the upper basin].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des comunes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 419)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Font notes]

REFERENCES

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