Genneville
Results: 2 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
B02: symbol - star
Scene Description: several
INFORMATION
FontID: 06215GEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Ouen
Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Country Name: France
Location: Calvados, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Honfleur, arrondissement de Lisieux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Similar in general shape to the font at nearby Ablon
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Calvados (2001, v. 2: 921) as a tub-shaped monolithic baptismal font ornamented with a shallow-relief blind arcade of round arches al around the basin sides and stars at the edges. The flat wooden lid appears modern. It is very similar in general shape to other fonts in the area [e.g.: the font at Ablon, in the same canton]. This source informs that the font at Genneville had been abandoned in the cemetery in the 19th century, but it is now re-installed back inside the church.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes du Calvados, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001