Champagne-sur-Seine No. 1 / Champaigne-lez-Fontainebleau / Champaigne-lez-Sainct-Nemer - Champaigne / Champaigne-sur-Seine-lez-Moret-en-Gâtinois / Villadque Campania

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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 24930CHA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame [aka Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Rue de l'Église, 77430 Champagne-sur-Seine, France
Country Name: France
Location: Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D39, on the E bank of the Seine river, 10 km E of Fontainebleau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,
Illustrated in the entry for this church in eglisesduconfluent.fr [http://eglisesduconfluent.fr/Pages/77-Champagne-ND.php] [accessed 18 September 2023] as a baptismal font consisting of an oval-shaped basin decorated with a simple moulding at the upper rim and a wide scotia-like indentation below; the underbowl is rounded and plain; raised on a slender quadrangular pedestal base with fluted pattern on the sides, and a small quadrangular pyramidal lower base. No cover present. The font may date to the 17th-century re-building of this medieval church. [cf. BSI entry for Champagne-sur-Seine No. 2 for a holy-water stoup in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.4055, 2.7983
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 24′ 19.8″ N, 2° 47′ 53.88″ E
UTM: 31U 485065 5361394

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: no lining