Dammarie-les-Lys / Dammarie-les-Fontaines / Dammarie-lès-Lys / Danemarie

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the parish church, re-built mid-19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2014 by the Mairie de Dammarie-lès-lys [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Notre_Dame_de_la_Visitation.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the ruins of the abbey church in the context of the abbatial complex

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2015 by Pline [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye-du-Lys-DSC_0044.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - detail

Scene Description: the ruins of the abbey church in the context of the abbatial complex

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2015 by Pline [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye-du-Lys-DSC_0056.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21512DAM

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation de Dammarie-les-Lys [originally from the Abbaye cistercienne du Lys]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: [NB: coordinates given below are for the parish church -- coordinates for the abbey are: 48° 31′ 5.51″ N, 2° 37′ 55.12″ E, 48.518196, 2.631976, UTM 31U 472823 5373964]

Country Name: France

Location: Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France

Directions to Site: Located between the D372 (W) and the D132 (E), SW of Melun, in the SE suburbs of Paris, 45 km from the city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Meaux

Font Location in Church: Inside the parish church

Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic

Church Notes: ruins of the 13thC Cistercian abbey listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00086923] -- the parish church may have started as an 11thC oratory dedicated to the Virgin; enlarged 1535; re-built 1859

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Adolphe Joanne's Dictionnaire des communes de la France... (Paris: Hachette 1864), p. 658 describes some of the contents of the abbey ruins, among which he notes: "balustrades en pierre sculptées baptismaux et des bénitiers également sculptés". The font, but not the stoups, is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM77000528] as 13th-century, originally from the abbatial church nearby, now in the parish church: "fonts baptismaux [...] formés par quatre colonnettes à chapiteaux [...] 13e siècle [...] Ces fonts baptismaux proviennent de l'abbaye du Lys."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 30′ 52″ N, 2° 38′ 06″ E

UTM: 31U 473430 5373906

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM77000528]