Vallangoujard No. 4
INFORMATION
FontID: 23987VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin à Vallangoujard
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 12 rue de Pontoise, 95810 Vallangoujard, France
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D64-D927 crossroads, about 12 km N of Pontoise
Historical Region: Le Vexin français
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an upper gallery?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Font Notes:
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There are four vessels of our interest, three fonts and one holy-water stoup, in this church reported inside this church; they are listed in separately [Vallangoujard No. 1, 2, 3 and 4] [NB: it is not clear from the sources at hand which of the font is in use at this time [May 2022]]. This font consists of an octagonal basin with vertival sides and a graded underbowl, raised of a round pedestal base with prtalled upper ending, a moulded lower base and a small square plinth; the whole fonts is painted in a variety of colours [is the font made of stone or wood?]. The wooden cover is octagonal, flat and plain, with an orb-and-cross finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.138186, 2.113093
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 8′ 17.47″ N, 2° 6′ 47.14″ E
UTM: 31U 435309 5443196
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]