Monceaux-au-Perche No. 1 / Moncelli / Moncellus in Pertico

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: all around the roughly cylindrical basin

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 April 2016 by Pucesurvitaminee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Monceaux-au-Perche_9.JPG] [accessed 25 February 2017]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2016 by Pucesurvitaminee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Monceaux-au-Perche_3.JPG] [accessed 25 February 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef et chœur de l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Monceaux-au-Perche, dans l'Orne."

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font is located at the far [west] end, hidden here behind the right [north] bank of benches

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08829MON
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 61290 Monceaux-au-Perche, France
Country Name: France
Location: Orne, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located on the D111, 7 km SW of Longny-au-Perche, 16 km ESE of Mortagne-au-Perche, 50 km E of Alençon [NB: in Jan. 2016 Monceaux was merged with Longny-les-Villages].
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Chartres
Historical Region: Pays Longnycien, Basse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only?], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: 12thC church
Described in Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie (1985: 133 no. 372) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period decorated with an arcade. Illustrated in Mémoire [image numérique native 2012, no. 80L023967]. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with a blind arcade of round arches on crude columns with capitals and bases alll around; raised on a round pedestal base that appears not to be the original. The wooden font cover, round, flat and plain, is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.484769, 0.704383
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 29′ 5.17″ N, 0° 42′ 15.78″ E
UTM: 31U 330373 5372728

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

"Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie", Printemps 1985, 92, Art de Basse-Normandie, 1985