Naouans

INFORMATION

FontID: 09537NAO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise de Naouans
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D24, near Marolles-les-Braults, about 35 km SE of Alençon
Font Location in Church: Reported overturned, outside, at the foot of the right wall
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
The regional web site for the Saosnois [www.saosnois.com/nouans.htm] reports an overturned holy-water stoup at the foot of the right wall of the church, on the outside, that had been used by the rural guard for a long time as a pedestal to place their notices to the villagers. The same source remarks that it is a curious end to an pobject that is probably the basin of the old baptismal font relegated to the outside when the new font made of black marble fom Sablé was installed in its place inside the church. This source also suggests [rightly so] that it is a valuable object that should be returned to the inside of the church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one?