Maxent / Maczant / Massant / Sanctus Maxentius / Skirioù-Masen
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: between the human heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Yves Thomas, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by Jean-Yves Thomas of BretagneWeb.com
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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human figure - head
Scene Description: detailed view of one of the underbowl heads
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: One at each angle of the underbowl
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view of basin - interior - lining
Scene Description: 19th-century [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: the modern church of ca. 1900
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 December 2013 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maxent_(35)_Église_04.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'ancienne église de Maxent (35), avant 1893." Originally from the 9thC, the old church was destroyed in 1897
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Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph; 28 December 2013 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maxent_(35)_Ancienne_église.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2016]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2010 by Jean-Yves Thomas of BretagneWeb.com
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view of font and cover - upper view
Scene Description: notice the distribution of the several wells [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02769MAX
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Maxent [orig. from the ancienne église Saint-Maxent, aka ancien prieuré Saint-Sauveur de Maxent, destroyed in 1897]
Church Patron Saints: St. Maxentius [aka Adjutor / Maixent / Maxence, Maxent]
Church Location: 35380 Maxent, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: In the canton de Plélan-le-Grand, arrondissement de Rennes
Historical Region: Communauté de communes de Brocéliande
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jaen-Yves Thomas, of BretagneWeb.com, for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: The old church dating from the 9th century was destroyed in 1897; the font was moved to the new church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA35017723]
Listed and described in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) and Malle (1994). Described in Glad: le portail des patrimoines de Bretagne [http://patrimoine.region-bretagne.fr] [accessed 10 November 2013]: "fonts baptismaux du 15e siècle dont la cuve en grès, taillée à facettes, s´orne de visages et de feuilles", where it is noted that it was one of the many furnishings re-used from the old church here. This same source lists a lead (?) lining made in the 19th century for the baptismal font here. Octagonal basin with plain sides; the rounded underbowl starts quite high and has a large human face at each of the eight angles; the space between the faces has floral ornamentation; the basin interior is divided in several compartments: a main round well for storing of the holy water, a secondary elongated well into which the water used in the baptism drops, and a pair of very small wells probably for the storage of the chrism oils; the upper base has half-columns on a central block; the lower base appears octagonal and has horizontal mouldings. The basin well, which has a 19th-century lead (?) lining, is not centered, but rather to one side, and is covered with a brass lid, low-domed and with a cross finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
47.983275,
-2.033882
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
47° 58′ 59.79″ N,
2° 2′ 1.97″ W
UTM: 30T 572091 5314893
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round [B1] -- other [B2]
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material:
metal,
brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: with Latin cross finial
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000
Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994