Villandry No. 1

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise : Chaire à prêcher extérieure ; 12e siècle"

Image Source: digital photograph 19 November 2021 by Isabelle Girard, in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA037_20213700695] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "A noter également à coté du portail moderne de style roman un montoir aux annonces."

Image Source: digital photograph in Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr/Centre/37/Villandry/villandry.htm] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Étienne de Villandry (Indre-et-Loire), chevet vu des jardins du château"

Image Source: digital photograoh 12 August 2017 by Fab5669 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villandry_-_église_Saint-Étienne_(01).jpg] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Etienne : Façade latérale sud, vue générale"

Image Source: digital photograph 2008, in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/MHR24_20203700456] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise paroissiale Saint-Etienne : nef"

Image Source: digital photograph 19 November 2021 by Isabelle Girard, in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA037_20213700720] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the fonts are located in the little enclosure at the northwest corner

Image Source: digital photograph in Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr/Centre/37/Villandry/villandry.htm] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church interior - transept - capitals

Scene Description: Source caption: "Les chapiteaux de la croisée sont de belle facture."

Image Source: digital photograph in Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr/Centre/37/Villandry/villandry.htm] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of church interior - transept - capitals

Scene Description: Source caption: "Les chapiteaux de la croisée sont de belle facture."

Image Source: digital photograph in Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr/Centre/37/Villandry/villandry.htm] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font in use: 17thC? -- notice the cylindrical basin staning on it side at the back, right side of the image: a font? [cf. FntNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr/Centre/37/Villandry/villandry.htm] [accessed 20 August 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25673VIL

Church/Chapel: Eglise paoissiales Saint-Étienne de Villandry

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: 11 Rue de la Mairie, 37510 Villandry, France

Country Name: France

Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire

Directions to Site: Located off the D121 [aka rue de la Mairie], on the S bank of the Cher and the Loire rivers, 15+ km W of Tours

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours

Historical Region: Centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it. We are also grateful to We are grateful to Eric Monnier-Couedor [https://photos-eglises.fr] for his photographs of this church and fonts

Church Notes: 11th-12thC church; modified 16thC -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00098287]: "L'église se compose d'un choeur du 12e siècle, ajusté à une nef qui peut être antérieure au 10e siècle. L'axe de la nef ne coïncide pas avec celui du choeur. Le portail d'entrée, à l'ouest, est de construction moderne."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present font in use appears relatively modern in relation to the medieval church here, probably 16th- or 17th-century; it consists of an oval-shaped basin raised on quadrangular baluster-type pedestal base, a common design in France in that period; it has an oval domed font cover, probably contemporary with the font, of painted metal with an orb-and-cross finial. The font is located in a little enclosure in the northwest corner of the nave. Standing next to the above-mentioned font are two objects of interest: one of them is a square basin of a stone baptismal font, decorated with a blind arcade on one side, a large saltire or X-motif on another; a metal cinch is used to reingrce the cracked sides; one side show an exterior drain hole which suggests the re-purposing of the basin as a planter or trough; it stands on a squat polygonal base with four very short round legs; no cover present. The other object in the enclosure is a cylindrical basin, rather small, as one would expect from a holy-water stoup, but with a central drain

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.3398, 0.5118

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 20′ 23.28″ N, 0° 30′ 42.48″ E

UTM: 31T 312041 5245928

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: oval (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]