Jouy le Potier / Jouy-le-Potier

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09491JOU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: 1607

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early)

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font -- heraldic font

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Jouy-le-Potier

Font Location in Church: Inside, SW corner of the nave

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00098799]: "4e quart 12e siècle"

Church Address: 25 Pl. Ernest de Basonnière, 45370 Jouy-le-Potier, France

Site Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D15, about 20 km SSW of Orléans

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font dated 1607 listed in Palissy [ref.: PM45000319]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Pierre [...] Armoiries [...] Aux armes de Claude III de la Chatre (1536-1614) [...] 1607 [...] Bas-côté nord." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W00336]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 410824 5288777

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.7462, 1.81035

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 44′ 46.32″ N, 1° 48′ 37.26″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)

Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, octagonal (both)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: "1607"

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: pyramidal cover on the main basin; flat cover on the auxiliary basin

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