Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes (Loire-Atlantique, France) - église du Vieux-Bourg"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rehtse, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2011 by Rehtse [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes_-_église_du_vieux-bourg.JPG] [accessed 13 March 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20428SUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?) / 14th - 15th century(?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église ou chapelle Saint-Sulpice du Vieux-Bourg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sulpicius [aka Sulpitius]
Church Notes: 14th-15thC chapel or church; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108822] with noteworthy original mural paintings
Church Address: Vieux Bourg, 44540 Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes, France -- Tel.: +33 2 40 28 20 20
Site Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D878, 13 km W of Candé, 25 km SE of Châteaubriant, 48 km E of Nantes, 70 km S of Rennes
Historical Region: Pays d'Ancenis -- La Bretagne historique
Font Notes:
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Font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM44000536]: "fonts baptismaux [...] double [...] Géminés [...] pierre [...] 13e siècle." [NB: unlikely dating; probably 14th-15th century]. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP44W00437]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 635980 5271561
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.583206, -1.191598
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 34′ 59.54″ N, 1° 11′ 29.75″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: double basins 1) round - 2) square
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal - 2) square
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.