Taillefontaine

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 January 2005 by Emmanuel Dervaux [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise-Taillefontaine.JPG] [accessed 4 January 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 18th-century font [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2013

Image Source: tirage photographique no. 02W00492, in Mémoire [ref.: AP02W00492]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18954TAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame [aka Eglise paroissiale de L'Assomption]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [The Assumption of St. Mary]
Church Location: route de Compiègne, 02600 Taillefontaine, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton of Villers-Cotterêts
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: early-12thC church with traces of an earlier one here -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115955]: "Eglise du début du 12e siècle, reconstruite au cours du 16e siècle en conservant le porche et quelques supports de l'église primitive. [...] 11e siècle ; 12e siècle ; 16e siècle".
The present baptismal font in this church is of 18th-century date. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM02001267]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.312694, 3.042078
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 18′ 45.7″ N, 3° 2′ 31.48″ E
UTM: 31U 503058 5462218