Yvre-le-Polin No. 1 / Ivre-le-Polin / Ivré-le-Pôlin / Yvré-le-Pôlin

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06131IVR

Object Type: Stoup

Object Details: grain measure

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin d'Yvré-le-Pôlin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours

Church Notes: present church 15thC with some remains of the 12th and 13thC

Church Address: Rue du 8 Mai, 72330 Yvré-le-Pôlin, France

Site Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D32, about 20 km SSW of Le Mans

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese du Mans

Additional Comments: recycled stoup: formerly a grain measure -- disappeared font? (the one from te earlier, 12th-13thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 2: 1300) as one of two former grain measures now used as holy-water stoups in this church; this one is monolithic, shallow, square in plan and has two large handles at opposite ends of the basin. [cf. Index entry for Ivré-le-Pôlin No. 2]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 286877 5300067

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.818621, 0.152808

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 49′ 7.04″ N, 0° 9′ 10.11″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001, vol. 2, p. 1300