Lassay-les-Chateaux / Lassay-les-Châteaux

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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - 3
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 08768LAS
Church/Chapel: Eglise de Lassay (orig. from the chapel of the castle?]
Country Name: France
Location: Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canmtona de Lassay-les-Châteaux, arrondissement de Mayenne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century,
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 542): baptismal font of the 17th century consisting of a hemispherical basin with high-relief ribbed pattern; it is raised on an octagonal baluster pedestal; low-dome cover with Latin cross finial. This source suggests that the font may have been originally from the chapel of the castle. [Flohic ref. no. 53160240]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, st
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
metal?,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2 vols.), Paris: FLOHIC, 2002