Orveau

Results: 5 records

coat of arms - unidentified - 10

Scene Description: smaller ones, around the inside of the basin well

coat of arms - unidentified - 2

Scene Description: one on each side of the basin, on the exterior

view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church exterior in context - south view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07675ORV
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours [aka Eglise de la Nativité]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 6 Place de l'Église, 91590 Orveau, France -- Tel.: 01 64 95 80 20
Country Name: France
Location: Essonne, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off (NW) the D145, E of the D191, in the canton and 6 km SW of Ferté-Alais, 10 km ENE of Étampes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: original 12thC church destroyed in the Hundred Years' War; present 16thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00087985]
Baptismal font of stone [no date given] listed in Palissy [ref.: PM91001463]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] pierre : taillé [...] en forme de navette, accolée d'un côté à une colonne. Décor : 1 blason de chaque côté de la navette, et 10 petits blasons à l'intérieur." Described and illustrated in the Patrimoine des communes... l'Essonne (2002, v. 1: 437) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the 17th century, one of its sides attached to a column stump of the same height as the font; the lower part of the font widens slightly; there is are two shields [coats-of-arms unidentified] ornamenting the upper basin side, one to each side, while the inside of the basin well has ten shields ornamenting the interior; the latter are smaller and also not identified. [Flohic ref.: 91141004].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.44817, 2.291808
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 26′ 53.41″ N, 2° 17′ 30.51″ E
UTM: 31U 447631 5366357

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (oval) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval?
Basin Exterior Shape: oval?

REFERENCES

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