Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer / Ste-Croix-sur-Mer
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angel - cherub - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pimprenel, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 August 2013 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Fonts_baptismaux_du_XVIe_siècle.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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design element - architectural - scroll - 4
Scene Description: handle-like ribs at the sides of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pimprenel, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 25 September 2012 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ste_Croix-sur-Mer,_fonts_baptismaux,_Nef,_arc_diaphragme_et_chœur_de_l'église.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 September 2012 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ste_Croix-sur-Mer,_fonts_baptismaux,_Nef,_arc_diaphragme_et_chœur_de_l'église.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 August 2013 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Fonts_baptismaux_du_XVIe_siècle.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pimprenel, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 August 2013 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Fonts_baptismaux_du_XVIe_siècle.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: in the gaps between the cherub heads are scroll-like motifs, one of which appears to have eyes, mouth, etc. on it; perhaps a cross, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 August 2013 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Fonts_baptismaux_du_XVIe_siècle.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of basin
![Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue partielle [...] Avant restauration"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231016009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue partielle [...] Avant restauration"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1989 by Bernard Legrand, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP14W01469] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "façade sud de l'église de l'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix de Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pimprenel, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 September 2012 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Église_de_l'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix_,_façade_sud.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: " Église de l'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix de Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,clocher"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 September 2012 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Église_de_l'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix_,_clocher.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale [... Avant restauration"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1989 by Bernard Legrand, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP14W01471] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux"
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph taken by J. Pougheol, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP14W01192] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of font and cover - southwest side
Scene Description: Source caption: "église de Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer, Fonts baptismaux du XVIe siècle."
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 August 2013 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer,_Fonts_baptismaux_du_XVIe_siècle.JPG] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
![Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale [...] 1989 [...] Avant restauration"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231016007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale [...] 1989 [...] Avant restauration"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1989 by Bernard Legrand, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP14W01472] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer, nef de l'église. fonts baptismaux du XVIe siècle en 1er plan dans la nef, puis arc diaphragme et chœur. L'église n'est pas voûtée mais couverte d'un simple plafond."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pimprenel, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 25 September 2012 by Pimprenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ste_Croix-sur-Mer,_fonts_baptismaux,_Nef,_arc_diaphragme_et_chœur_de_l'église.jpg] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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view of font cover
![Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, détail [...] Avant restauration"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231016010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, détail [...] Avant restauration"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1989 by Bernard Legrand, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP14W01470] [accessed 16 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06226CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de l'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: 2 Rte de Ver sur Mer, 14480 Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer, France
Country Name: France
Location: Calvados, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D112A [aka Rte. de Sainte-Croix-sur-Mer], 15-16 lm ENE of Bayeux, about 25 km NW of Caen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux
Historical Region: Basse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the entranceway
Century and Period: 16th century(late?), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: similar fonts at Le-Theil-en-Auge, Tierceville
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 13th, 16th and 18thC
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM14000609]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire (monolithe) [...] Figures (angelot) ; ornementation (volute : feuille d'acanthe, ornement à forme végétale, cuir); représentation d'objet (La Croix, feuille d'acanthe) [...] H = 177 ; la = 57,5 ; dimensions totales ; hauteur sans couvercle : h = 110 [...] Cuve en partie rongée, visage très effacé, pulvérulent ; entièrement restauré en 1990-1991 : fixage des parties pulvérulentes, restauration de l'ancienne polychromie du couvercle. Restauré en 1989 par l'atelier Bernard Legrand à Darnétal [...] Couvercle en chêne". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP14W01192, AP14W01469, AP14W01470, AP14W01471 and AP14W01472]. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Calvados (2001, v. 2: 1352) as a baptismal font dated from the end of the 16th century; the basin sides are deeply recessed between two round mouldings, the upper is octagonal; human heads and other motifs in the recess [cf. supra]; the underbowl is round and ornamented with foliage motifs. The base is an octagonal pedestal with one large centre moulding; four textured and ornamented handle-like volutes reach from the upper part of the base to the lower one, one on every second side. There is an octagonal wooden dome cover topped by a cross finial; painted a lead-grey colournow but earlier photographs [cf. ImagesArea] show it multicoloured.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.31345, -0.510887
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 18′ 48.42″ N, 0° 30′ 39.19″ W
UTM: 30U 680906 5465282
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes du Calvados, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001