Vitry-aux-Loges
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view of church exterior
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux de l’an mil. Tout de suite à droite de l’entrée, les fonts baptismaux, grande cuve de pierre grossièrement taillée sur un pied sans moulure qui daterait, d’après l’historien J. Quicherat, de Robert le Pieux. Il s’agit là , avec la pièce carrée située juste derrière, des plus anciens vestiges de l’église Saint Médard." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © BellesEglises, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in BellesEglises [https://belles-eglises-static.vercel.app/eglises/273] [accessed 3 November 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25023VIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Médard
Church Patron Saints: St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Location: Place Théobald de Beauregard, 45530 Vitry-aux-Loges, France -- Tel.: 02 38 59 48 05
Country Name: France
Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D10 [aka Rue Gametta], on the N side of the canal, 25-30 km E of Orléans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the netranceway
Date: ca. 1530?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
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: original 11thC church; destroyed by the English in 1413; re-built 1530; restored early-20thC
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Sauvegarde de l’Art Français [https://www.sauvegardeartfrancais.fr/projets/vitry-aux-loges-eglise-saint-medard/] [accessed 3 November 2023] reports a baptismal font of the original 11th-century building in it. An illustration of a baptismal font in this church appears in the Fondation du Patrimoine page [https://www.fondation-patrimoine.org/les-projets/eglise-saint-medard-de-vitry-aux-loges] [accessed 3 November 2023], a 'double font' that would not date to the 11th century but might belong to the 16th-century re-building of the church after its destruction by the English in 1413. The corresponding page in the Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux [https://www.patrimoine-religieux.fr/eglises_edifices/45-Loiret/45346-Vitry-aux-Loges/182162-EgliseSaint-Medard] [accessed 3 November 2023] menrions the font and stoup amon the "éléments remarquables" in it. The entry in Belles Eglises [https://belles-eglises-static.vercel.app/eglises/273] [accessed 3 November 2023] as a font crudely exceuted datable according to J. Quicherat to the Robert II the Pious (972-1031) [cf. supra] ["Tout de suite à droite de l’entrée, les fonts baptismaux, grande cuve de pierre grossièrement taillée sur un pied sans moulure qui daterait, d’après l’historien J. Quicherat, de Robert le Pieux. Il s’agit là , avec la pièce carrée située juste derrière, des plus anciens vestiges de l’église Saint Médard.]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 445192 5309892
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: double basins
Basin Exterior Shape: double basins
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, bras
Apparatus: no
Notes: two covers, one on each basin