Morlaix No. 1 / Montroulez / Ploujean
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B01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several, some flat
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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
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view of font and canopy, baldachin
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02522MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1660
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: The font is reported as similar to the one in Plourin-lès-Morlaix. Other canopied fonts in this area at Guimiliau, La Martyre, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de Ploujean
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [formerly dedicated to St. John the Baptist]
Church Notes: 11thC church; modified 14th, 16thC; "Dédié autrefois à Saint-Jean Baptiste" -- restored 19th, 20thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.:PA00090127]: "15e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Church Address: 1 Rue de l'Église, 29600 Morlaix, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Ploujean is located N of the D46, 2 km N of Morlaix; Morlaix is 35-40 kms E of Brest on the N12-E50.
Font Notes:
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Chastel (1966) indicates that a font in Morlaix has, like the ones at Guimiliau and La Martyre, also in Finistere, a ciborium or baldaquin, but does not describe the font itself. The Phaidon guide to France (1985) mentions "carved baptismal fonts [sic] (1660)" in the church of "Sainte [sic] Mélaine" in Morlaix. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) entry does not mention either the font or the baldaquin but the page where it appears inclues a reproduction of a 19th century lithograph by P. Saint-Germain in which the baldaquin is depicted in a baptism scene; a peak at the font behind the railing shows an unremarkable octagonal (?) mounted type with mouldings and a decorative pattern on the underbowl. The baldaquin is the type with a lower railing in which rest the four shafts which hold up the canopy on which an ornate church-like dome houses several figures. Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) shows a recent photograph of both font and baldaquin: the latter has lost the railing, therefore all that remains are the four columns and the canopy; an inscription on it is reported in this source: "Fait du temps de Jean Braouézecq et Jean Prigent fabriques 1660." The font itself appears as an octagonal basin with decorated sides, raised on an plain octagonal pedestal base. The Patrimoine de France database [http://www.patrimoine-de-france.org/richesses-20-7203-54239-P203714-128582.html] [accessed 19 September 2009] has: "La cuve baptismale date du 16e siècle et le baldaquin de 1660." The same source notes the inscription [on the badaquin]: "Inscription et date (sur la frise) : FAICT DV TEMPS [DE] JAN BRAOVEZEQ E IAN PRIGENT FABRIQUES 1660."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 438512 5383929
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.605419, -3.8341
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 36′ 19.51″ N, 3° 50′ 2.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: of graded top with small cross finial
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV A 77 (ill. only)
- Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998, vol. 2, p. 810
- Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966, p. 288
- Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, p. 298
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 432