Guimiliau No. 1 / Gwimilio

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UBD101: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 8

Scene Description: on the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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UBD102: design element - motifs - scroll or tape

Scene Description: as if wrapped around the arcade on the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the baluster-type base is a later replacement

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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inscription

Scene Description: the year 1675

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the interior and drain of the small basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - calvary

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - calvary - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: a northwest view of the church exterior enclosure with the Calvary in the centre

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 August 2014 by Gus.mlb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enclos_paroissial_Guimiliau.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2016]

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view of church interior - baldachin

Scene Description: with the font inside -- a tight fit with the finial not quite straight

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - canopy, baldachin - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

Scene Description: the baldaquin; note the oblong stone container by the entrance [cf. Index entry for Guimiliau No. 2]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church interior - window - east window

Scene Description: over the altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the two covers sen from above

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of object

Scene Description: is it a font lining? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: a wall-mounted stoup on the side of the ossuary

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2007 by Steffen Heilfort [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4383.Blick_Altes_Beinhaus-Reliefs_mit_Szenen_aus_dem_Leben_Jesus_-_Kirche_Eglise_Saint_Miliau-Guimiliau-Enclos_Paroissal-Umfriedeter_Pfarrbezirk.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02521GUI

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Miliau

Church Patron Saints: St. Miliau [aka Miliav]

Church Location: 29400 Guimiliau, Bretagne, France

Country Name: France

Location: Finistère, Bretagne

Directions to Site: Guimiliau is about 20 kms SW of Morlaix (take the N12-E50 from Morlaix to Kermat, then a left turn to catch the 122; Guimiliau is about 2 kms down that road) [NB: not to be mistaken with Lampaul-Guimiliau in the same departement]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon

Font Location in Church: To the left of the entrance, near the choir, under a huge baldaquin

Date: 1675

Century and Period: 17th century(late), Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font

Cognate Fonts: Morlaix and La Martyre (France) for the baldaquin

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font and church

Church Notes: built mid-16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font with ciborium/baldaquin, like those at Morlaix and La Martyre, all of them in the Finistere dept. of France (Chastel, 1966, p. 288). Enlart (1902) lists the actual font as being Tournai-like and having a 5-column base. [On-site notes: we found, instead, an octagonal mounted font with a small constructional second basin. The larger basin has no ornamentation other than the graded chamfering of the bowl towards the base. The base is also octagonal and adorned with a blind arcade. The second basin is more like a protrusion [cf. also Index entry for Comana No. 1] than a proper second basin; the base which sits now under this part appears to have been added later and one can see the font without any base for the protrusion at all; perhaps it was added later for fear that this second basin would break off, as has been the case in some proper double-fonts of the area. Also, as in the case of the Comana No. 1 font, the most striking furnishing is the baldaquin itself, a massive 25-feet tall dark oak structure attributed to the Lerrel workshop of Landivisiau]. [NB: a cylindrical metal [lead?] container found inside this church was photographed by Colin Hinson for BSI on 7 September 2009; there are two interesting characteristics of this object that may be relevant in the context of this Index: it resembles the kind of metal [lead?] lining found in fonts of this area and across the Channel in Britain; it has a cover that looks very much like the covers of fonts in this area, where a small trap door is cut in the cover proper for easy access to inner basin well without the need to remove or lift the whole cover; we have no information on the origin or use of this object]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.4885, -3.9976

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 29′ 18.6″ N, 3° 59′ 51.36″ W

UTM: 30U 426289 5371078

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite [except for the replacement smaller base]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) (double font)

Basin Interior Shape: round (large basin) -- hexagonal (small basin)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (large basin) -- hexagonal (small basin)

Drainage Notes: the large basin has no drain

Diameter (inside rim): 64-65 cm

Basin Depth: 6 cm (small basin)

Basin Total Height: 39 cm

Height of Base: 94 cm (basin1); 70 cm(basin2)

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm(basin1); 92 cm(basin2)

Notes on Measurements: BSI. [NB: the bottom part of the main base of the font is buried in the ground for at least an extra 10 cm, making the font at least 104 cm tall]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Location: on the side of the large basin

Inscription Text: "1675"

Inscription Source: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: The larger cover is octagonal, the smaller is hexagonal matching the shape of the small basin.

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985