Saint-Jean-le-Blanc
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10132JEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-le-Blanc
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: W8PW+55Q Terres de Druance, France
Site Location: Calvados, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D1206-D298 crossroads, 13-14 km NW of Condé-en-Normandie, about 30 km SW of Caen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans
Historical Region: Suisse normande
Font Notes:
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Listed in De Caumont (1857) as a baptismal font of the late 14th or early 15th century [source: online version of the 1857 ed. at http://lebocain.free.fr/c.htm#sjb]. The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean-le-Blanc_(Calvados)] [accessed 15 August 2025] notes: "L'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, en grande partie reconstruite en 1945, avec fonts baptismaux du XVIIe" but gives no reference for it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 671914 5423041
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.936389, -0.6525
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 56′ 11″ N, 0° 39′ 9″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Caumont, Arcisse de, Statistique monumentale du Calvados [3 vols.], Caen: F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1846-1867, [cf. FontNotes]