Wissous

INFORMATION

FontID: 07671WIS
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Denis
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Country Name: France
Location: Essonne, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Chilly-Mazarin, arrondissement de Palaiseau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Date: ca. 1699?
Century and Period: 17th century(late),
Described and illustrated in the Patrimoine des communes... l'Essonne (2002, v. 1: 185) as a baptismal font ordered by the Archbishop of Paris to be made in 1699; during his visit to the church he had found the former one broken. It consists of a plain -except for a rim moulding- hemispherical basin mounted on quadrangular pedestal, also plain. [Flohic ref.: 91060307]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Essonne, Paris: FLOHIC, 2002