Varennes No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 06154VAR
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Pl. de la Mairie, 37600 Varennes, France
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D31, in the municipality and about 10 km SW of Loches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Similar design of the inner lobes of the basin in the fonts at La Celle-Guenand and Ferrière-Larçon
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 781) as a square mounted holy-water stoup dated from teh 12th or 13th century. This source (ibid.) cites the Congrès archéologique de Tours (1949) in which Marc Thibout pointed out the similarity of the lobes of this basin with those of the fonts at la Celle-Guenand and Ferrière-Larçon. Thibout attributes all three examples to the 12th century, whereas Robert Ranjard dates the Varennes stoup to the 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.06965, 0.91559
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 4′ 10.74″ N, 0° 54′ 56.12″ E
UTM: 31T 341740 5215012

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: multi-lobed
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001