Ferriere-Larcon No. 1 / Ferrière-Larçon
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - 12
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 2011 by Guy Du Chazaud, in Mémoire [ref.: OA037123700694] [ww.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2481/oa037_123700694nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 12 March 2016]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue panoramique du centre de Ferrière-Larçon, on peut y voir l'église paroissiale Saint-Mandé Saint Jean, une des trois constructions répertoriées de Ferrière-Larçon."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hamonjacques, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2015 by Hamonjacques [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FerriereLarconBandeau.jpeg] [accessed 12 March 2016
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) ; Conseil général d'Indre-et-Loire, 2011
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 2011 by Guy Du Chazaud, in Mémoire [ref.: OA037123700694] [ww.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2481/oa037_123700694nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 12 March 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06179FER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Mandé-Saint-Jean
Church Location: 37350 Ferrière-Larçon, France
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Grand-Pressigny, arrondissement de Loches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Historical Region: La Touraine du Sud
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against the N wall of the nave, near the W entrance
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: late-11thC church; modified 12th, 13th and 18thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097756]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM37000207]: "fonts baptismaux [...] pierre [...] Taillée au ciseau en un bloc à peu près cylindrique [...] 12e siècle." Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 542-543) as a monolithic cylindrical baptismal font of the 12th century; the inner basin well is has twelve concave ribs; restored; this same source mentions a small base but the basin appears without one in this and other sources. [NB: the concave ribbing of the inner well tends to be found in 13th-century fonts or later; the early dating may have been assigned based on the crude workmanship].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.9928, 0.882591
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 59′ 34.08″ N, 0° 52′ 57.33″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm* / 95 cm**
Basin Depth: 35 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm* / 80 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM37000207] / ** 95 x 80 x 35 cm" in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 543); the diameter of the outer bottom of the basin is given as 65 cm; the indentations are 15 cm long and 5 cm deep, according to this same source
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001