Ingrandes No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 07705ING
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: France
Location: Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Dangé-Saint-Romain, arrondissement de Châtellerault
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne (2002, v.1: 265) as a double-baptismal font probably of the 15th century; it appears as a made-up object consisting of two volumes: the font proper, or main basin, being a rounded rather amorphous shape with a square upper end; to its side, either carved of the same stone or, more likely, cemented to it is a rectangular trough-like appendage. It is altogether a very un-characteristic object obviously of local manufacture and unlikely to have a match anywhere else, although, conceptually, it is not very different from many double-fonts of the 16th century in France [Flohic ref. no.: 86070303]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: double font
Basin Interior Shape: round (basin1) - rectangular (basin2)
Basin Exterior Shape: round (basin1) - rectangular (basin2)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: the main basin has a flat wooden lid, plain and apparently modern

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne, Paris: FLOHIC, 2002