Corbigny No. 3

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18623COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Seine
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sequanus [aka Seine]
Church Address: 58800 Corbigny, France
Site Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the RD997-RD985 crossroads, S of Ruages, N of Sardy-lès-Épiry, in the arrondissement de Clamecy
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers
Historical Region: Nivernais -- Le Morvan -- Pays Corbigeois
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Marillier (1887) refers to a "Procès verbal de la visite de l'église Sainte-Seine, extrait du cahier des visites de l'archidiaconé d'Avallon", visit that took place on 28 November 1667 and found the baptismal font and the holy chrism vessels in good shape [="Nous avons visité les fonds baptismaux qui se sont trouvés en bon estat et de mesme les vaisseaux des saintes onctions"]. A later visit, conducted at 7 am on Saturday, 15 May 1700, "par Claude-Nicolas de Bart, chanoine d'Autun, archidiacre d'Avallon", recommended that a railing be built around the baptismal font [="Qu'on fera faire une balustrade autour des fonts baptismaux"]. The present font in this church is made of pink marble, with a copper lid; 18th-century [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font from the early-12th century church here]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 551766 5234007

REFERENCES

  • Marillier, M. l'abbe, Corbigny, Paris; Nevers: H. Champion; Thomas-Ferrandier, 1887, p. 322ff