Sainte-Suzanne / Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes

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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonds [sic] baptismaux Sainte-Suzanne" -- showing damage to the rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © SteSuz1948, 2002

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 September 2002 by SteSuz1948 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonds_baptismaux_Ste-Suzanne.jpg] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sainte-Suzanne (Pays de la Loire, France). L'église Sainte-Suzanne."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ikmo-ned, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 August 2016 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrancePaysDeLaLoireSainteSuzanneEglise.jpg] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Suzanne de Sainte-Suzanne (Mayenne, France) : nef"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 September 2021 by Fab5669 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Suzanne_-_église_Sainte-Suzanne,_intérieur_11.jpg] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Suzanne de Sainte-Suzanne (Mayenne)" -- the top of the baptismal font and its cover may be discerned at the far [west] end, just left [south] of the stairwell leading to the gallery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 14 April 2014 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte-Suzanne_de_Sainte-Suzanne_(Mayenne)_05.JPG] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pendant la visite de l’église, Don Pierre explique l’originalité des fonts baptismaux qui comportent deux vasques. | OUEST-FRANCE"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ouest-France, 2022

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the 4 August 2022 edition of Ouest-France [https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/sainte-suzanne-et-chammes-53270/la-cite-et-leglise-se-visitent-a-deux-voix-le-vendredi-a4375cff-4e33-4124-8468-f46269013c24] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Suzanne de Sainte-Suzanne (Mayenne, France) : fonts baptismaux"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fab5669, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 September 2021 by Fab5669 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Suzanne_-_église_Sainte-Suzanne,_intérieur_02.jpg] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Sainte-Suzanne de Sainte-Suzanne (Mayenne)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph 14 April 2014 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Sainte-Suzanne_de_Sainte-Suzanne_(Mayenne)_03.JPG] [accessed 17 December 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25167SUZ
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Suzanne de Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes
Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Location: 5 Pl. Hubert II de Beaumont, 53270 Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes, France
Country Name: France
Location: Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A81, in the municipality of Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes since 2016, 5-4 km SE of Évron, about 25 km E of Laval
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Laval
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: 16thC church much modified since; restoted 1884 and 1968
The French Wikipedia entry for this church [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Sainte-Suzanne_de_Sainte-Suzanne_(Mayenne)] [accessed 17 December 2023] notes and illustrates a baptismal font made of marble in the 16th century in it ["Fonts baptismaux (marbre et cuivre) XVIIe siècle"]. A photograph in the 4 August 2022 edition of Ouest-France [https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/sainte-suzanne-et-chammes-53270/la-cite-et-leglise-se-visitent-a-deux-voix-le-vendredi-a4375cff-4e33-4124-8468-f46269013c24] [accessed 17 December 2023] shows an upper view of the font: the interior of the oval basin has the characteristic division of the later double fonts: two round inner basins with two smaller wells in the spandrels of the larger ones.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.0975, -0.34944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 5′ 51″ N, 0° 20′ 57.98″ W
UTM: 30U 697339 5330536

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: double basins
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: the drainage is probably inside one of the two larger inner wells

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: oval dome with turned finial/handle