Vaiges No. 3
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pays de la Loire, Mayenne, Vaiges, place de l' Église. Bénitier n° 2"
INFORMATION
FontID: 25163VIA
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Laurent de Vaiges
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Pl. de l'Église, 53480 Vaiges, France
Country Name: France
Location: Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D57, S of the A81. 25-30 km E of Laval, about 50 km W of Le Mans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Laval
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this stoup to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup listed and illustrated in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/dossier/IM53002118] [accessed 17 December 2023]: "Le bénitier, du XVIe ou XVIIe siècle, pourrait provenir de la commune de Loupfougères et apporté à Vaiges par l'abbé Bellanger au moment de la restauration de l'église consécutive à l'incendie de 1968 [...] La cuve est circulaire ornée de quatre grosses côtes [...] grès, taillé [...] h = 17 ; la = 24,5 ; pr = 21,5. Les largeur et profondeur ont été prises sans tenir compte de la partie engagée dans la maçonnerie." [NB: the now wall-mounted object looks suspiciously like a medieval(?) grain or liquid measure, a crude unadorned tub with the characteristic four bulges at 90-degree angles]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.04104, -0.47711
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 2′ 27.74″ N, 0° 28′ 37.6″ W
UTM: 30U 688041 5323941
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: round (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round