Ablis
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dans la chapelle sous le clocher, les fonts baptismaux avec cuve du XVIe."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Monnier-Couedor, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] by Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr/IdF/78/Ablis/ablis.htm [accessed 25 June 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24058ABL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne prieurale] Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: 3 place de l'Eglise, 78660 Ablis, France
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off local road D168/D2988 [aka rte. de Dourdan], 10 km S of Rambouillet, about 40 km ENE of Chartres
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower chapel
Date: 1570
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 11thC church documented 1115; much modified since -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00087357]: "4e quart 11e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM78001003] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/IM78001003] [accessed 25 June 2022]: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale à infusion) [...] Marbre veiné (rose) : taillé, poli, godronné [...] 1570 [...] Cuve ovale. Couvercle en bois [...] H = 100 ; hauteur totale ; dimensions cuve : l = 92, la = 72 [...] Bas-côté nord, première travée [...] Fonts baptismaux datés de 1570 présentant une cuve analogue à celle des fonts baptismaux de l'église de Senlisse (canton de Chevreuse) et dont le pied peut être rapproché de celui du bénitier de l'église de Craches à Prunay-en-Yvelines (canton de Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.51593,
1.835626
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 30′ 57.35″ N,
1° 50′ 8.26″ E
UTM: 31U 414013 5374301
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: oval, plain and flat