Deux-Jumeaux
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns
Scene Description: a cluster of columns forms the upper base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 12 February 2022 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_l'église_Saint-Martin-de-Vertou_de_Deux-Jumeaux.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: much damaged and eroded; were there foliage motifs below the mouldings?
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Image Source: digital photograph 12 February 2022 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_l'église_Saint-Martin-de-Vertou_de_Deux-Jumeaux.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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design element - motifs - scroll or vine
Scene Description: on the square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 12 February 2022 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_l'église_Saint-Martin-de-Vertou_de_Deux-Jumeaux.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux-Jumeaux (Normandie, France). L'église abbatiale Saint-Martin-de-Vertou."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikmo-ned, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 20 July 2013 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieDeuxJumeauxEgliseAbbatiale.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux-Jumeaux - Ancienne église Saint-Martin-de-Vertou"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Garnier, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2020 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deux-Jumeaux_-_Ancienne_église_Saint-Martin-de-Vertou_-_15.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapelle de l'abbaye des Deux-Jumeaux, Calvados"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frédéric Amiel, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2012 by Frédéric Amiel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_des_Deux-Jumeaux.JPG] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux-Jumeaux - Ancienne église Saint-Martin-de-Vertou" -- there appears to be evidence of opus spicatum from an earlier building on these two walls
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Garnier, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2020 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deux-Jumeaux_-_Ancienne_église_Saint-Martin-de-Vertou_-_09.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Martin-de-Vertou de Deux-Jumeaux" -- not known what the object next to the font is
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 12 February 2022 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_de_l'église_Saint-Martin-de-Vertou_de_Deux-Jumeaux.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06218DEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale [bénédictine] Saint-Martin-de-Vertou / prieurale [paroissiale jusqu'en 1808]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 14230 Le Foirage, 14230 Deux-Jumeaux, France
Country Name: France
Location: Calvados, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the N13/E46, in the canton de Isigny-sur-Mer, about 25 km WNW of Bayeux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
Church Notes: 12thC church replaced a series of earlier cult sites, some of which had been destroyed in Scandinavian raids; documented by 1190 and confirmed in 1278 as a priory -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00111281]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Calvados (2001, v. 2: 959) as a baptismal font at the old abbey church; the upper section of the basin appears round, but the next part down is octagonal, all very damaged and worn; large damaged section where the cover anchoring was made; the base is a tight cluster of round columns standing on a square lower base that is decorated with scrolls on the sides. Modern plain flat lid.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.34861, -0.96178
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 20′ 55″ N, 0° 57′ 42.41″ W
UTM: 30U 648033 5468208
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes du Calvados, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001