Neufchatel-en-Saosnois / Neufchatel / Neufchâtel / Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois

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view of church exterior - southeast view

the parish church of Saint-Étienne in Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, where the old stoup from the abbey is now in use
Scene Description: the parish church of Saint-Étienne in Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, where the old stoup from the abbey is now in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © http://ali.hamadache3.free.fr/eglises104.html, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 January 2009 [http://ali.hamadache3.free.fr/photosN24/neufchatel_eglise_un.JPG] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - detail

Source caption: "Ruines de l'abbaye de Perseigne, dans la Sarthe." -- the ruins of the Abbaye de Perseigne, now private property, are listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109888]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ruines de l'abbaye de Perseigne, dans la Sarthe." -- the ruins of the Abbaye de Perseigne, now private property, are listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109888]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pucesurvitaminee, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Pucesurvitaminee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_de_Perseigne.JPG] [accessed 23 July 2017]
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view of church exterior in context

the abbey of Perseigne in the late-17thC -- Source caption: "Profil de l'Abbaye de Perseigne au Maine, Ordre de Cisteaux, Veüe du costé de l'entrée // 1695 : [dessin] / [Louis Boudan]"
Scene Description: the abbey of Perseigne in the late-17thC -- Source caption: "Profil de l'Abbaye de Perseigne au Maine, Ordre de Cisteaux, Veüe du costé de l'entrée // 1695 : [dessin] / [Louis Boudan]"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1695 illustration by Louis Boudan, from the Gallica Digital Library [ref.: btv1b6902346h], in [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_de_perseigne_boudan_gaignières.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-scan (PD-old-100)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06100NEU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1515
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early)
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Étienne [orig. from the Abbaye de Perseigne]
Font Location in Church: Inside the parish church
Church Notes: church here documented 1149; present church 13th and 15thC
Church Address: 72600 Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, France
Site Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D311, 10 km WNW of Mamers, 12 km ESE of Alençon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese du Mans
Historical Region: Maine Saosnois
Additional Comments: recycled stoup (originally from a nearby abbey; now in the parish church) -- disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 595) as an octagonal mounted holy-water stoup of the 16th century made of granite; a shield on one of the sides of the basin bears the arms of one of the abbots of the Abbaye de Perseigne, probably François de Ryé. The stoup is believed to be originally form this abbey church. An article in Ouest-France [www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/ce-que-cachait-leglise-de-neufchatel-en-saosnois-3917384] [accessed 23 July 2017] on the re-opening of the church in late 2015 after ten years of restoration work carried out here, mentions "un grand et massif «bénitier» de granit aux armes de Roland Le Gouz, abbé de Perseigne". Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM72000672]: "Bénitier de forme octogonale [...] granite [...] Provient de l'abbaye de Perseigne [...] Armoiries : écusson de Roland Le Gouz, abbé de Perseigne, mort en 1516 (sculpté sur l'une des faces du bénitier) [...] date 1515".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (with Plinth): 140 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM72000672]

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001, vol. 1, p. 595