Avant-les-Marcilly / Avant-lès-Marcilly

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design element - motifs - foliage

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 2003 by Delphine Mercier and Elise Ernest in Mémoire [NUMI 031010561NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1886/oa010_031010561nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 May 2008 by Guerin-loury [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Avant_les_Marcilly.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2016]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 2003 by Delphine Mercier and Elise Ernest in Mémoire [NUMI 031010561NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1886/oa010_031010561nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20612AVA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 10400 Avant-lès-Marcilly, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aube, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D52, 10 km SE of Nogent-sur-Seine, 32 SE of Provins, 40 NW of Troyes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church
Baptismal font of stone made of a fragment of an old [late-12th century?] font into which was inserted a 19th-century basin; the old base has some foliage motifs on the sides. There is modern wooden font cover, round, flat and plain. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM10005796], and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA010_031010561]: " fonts baptismaux [ calcaire] [...] Deux cuves superposées : une cuve moderne (19e s.), taillée dans une pierre grossière et poreuse, est posée sur une cuve ancienne (fin 12e s.) en calcaire. Le couvercle de la cuve moderne est en bois. La cuve ancienne, assez basse, comporte une base à griffes. Il s'agit peut être d'une ancienne cuve à immersion [...] 19e siècle ; 2e moitié 12e siècle".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 542229 5363541

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; hinged in the middle; modern