Baptismal Font — Saint-Pierre, Pontlevoy

This font is a 19th-century marble piece, carved from dark, veined stone and polished to a high sheen. The bowl is a deep, hemispherical basin with a simple moulded rim, resting on a tapered baluster-shaped pedestal that rises from a square plinth. Its smooth surfaces and restrained profile reflect the sober, neoclassical vocabulary commonly used in French parish furnishings of the mid- to late-19th century.
The font stands on encaustic tile flooring with repeating geometric and foliate motifs, and is positioned in a windowed niche of the nave or aisle, where the pale stone walls contrast sharply with the dark marble. A modern wooden cover sits over the basin, and in the present arrangement the top is used to support a potted plant—an ad hoc addition rather than part of the historic furnishing.
Although the church possesses medieval origins, the font belongs to the later restoration campaigns typical of rural Berry–Touraine churches, reflecting the increased emphasis on orderly liturgical provision after the Concordat period.
