Tourouvre / Tortum Robur
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'ouest : tour-clocher 12e- 14e s, dôme 18e s.L'église n'a qu'un seul bas-côté, au nord.ISMH 1991."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Unozoe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tourouvre,_Orne,_église_saint_Aubin_bu_IMG_1520.jpg] [accessed 25 February 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue du sud est. Nef 12e s. Abside et baies modifiées au 15e s.ISMH 1991."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2011 by Unozoe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tourouvre,_Orne,_église_saint_Aubin_bu_IMG_1520_IMG_1530.jpg] [accessed 25 February 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2007 by Paemond [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_Tourouvre.jpg] [accessed 25 February 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21025TOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Aubin
Church Patron Saints: St. Aubin [aka Albinus of Angers]
Church Location: 61190 Tourouvre, France
Country Name: France
Location: Orne, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D5-D32-D243-D282-D290 crossroads, NW of Longny-au-Perche [NB: merged with Tourouvre-au-Perche since Jan. 2016]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Chartres
Historical Region: Haut-Perche, Nasse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: Romanesque church re-built late-15thC -- listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110991]: "De l'église romane subsiste le mur gouttereau sud. Le reste de l'édifice a été reconstruit aux 15e, 16e et 17e siècles."
The present font consists of a an octagonal basin of reddish stone decorated with a few shallow mouldings, the sides tapering towards a rounded underbowl; on a pedestal base that appears not to belong. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Romanesque church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.590556,
0.651944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 35′ 26″ N,
0° 39′ 7″ E
UTM: 31U 326860 5384603
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal