Pleumeleuc / Plemeleuc / Pleum'neu / Pleumelec / Plomeleuc / Plomeloc / Plumeloc
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Results: 30 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Scene Description: a number of quadrupeds and other motifs on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
symbold - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
![The shield has three quadrupeds [rats?] and a vine](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/PLE0000713_compressed.png)
Scene Description: The shield has three quadrupeds [rats?] and a vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - grape
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Scene Description: on both basins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
blank
Scene Description: another of the panels on this side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
blank
Scene Description: one of the panels of this basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - shrub
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - shrub
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - shrub
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - shrub
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - grape
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - grape
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - plant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - grape
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
blank
Scene Description: one of the panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - plant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - shrub
Scene Description: Vine and shrub motif
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - vine - shrub
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church interior - ceiling - beam - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the base of the main side of the double font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the stem of the auxiliary pedestal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 June 2014 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02771PLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-14
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Other granite double-fonts in Ille-et-Vilaine
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierrre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00130760]: "11e siècle ; 15e siècle ; 1ère moitié 16e siècle ; 2e quart 19e siècle [...] L´église saint-Pierre de Plemeuleuc a été construite en plusieurs campagnes. Des vestiges d'un appareillage du 11ème siècle dans les murs de la nef témoignent de son ancienneté in situ. L´église est cependant reconstruite au 15ème siècle et dans la première moitié du 16ème siècle (façade ouest), puis elle est agrandie de chapelles formant transept et d'une tour en 1839 par l'architecte Leroux. Les archives mentionnent la restauration du clocher en 1869 par l´entrepreneur Peschard de Montfort-sur-Meu. Croix monumentale du 15ème ou du 16ème siècle. Plan en croix latine, 1 vaisseau recouvert d'un lambris de couvrement, clocher en façade, chevet plat. Présence d'un appareillage en feuilles de fougères dans le mur nord de la nef.. Intérieur avec un ensemble de décor peint sur le lambris de couvrement."
Church Address: Pl. de l'Église, 35137 Pleumeleuc, France -- Tel.: +33 2 99 09 01 31
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Pleumeleuc is just off the N12-E50, about 20 km WNW from Rennes; at the croosroads with Monfort-sur-Meu to the left, make a right in the direction Pleumeleuc. Romille. Pleumeleuc is about 1 km down that road.
Additional Comments: Also worthy of note are the carved beam-ends of the ceiling of the nave; the ones in this church are painted in bright colours [cf. ImagesArea].
Font Notes:
Click to view
On-site notes: double-font consisting of two basins which appear made of a single block of granite, one larger than the other; both basins are octagonal and their sides are ornamented with carved grape vines, shrubs and a shield. The bases are independent, the smaller is an octagonal column, the larger one ends in a square at ground level. Both basins have polygonal wooden covers of approximately the same height as the basins. The basins are ornamented chiefly with rosettes and other floral motifs. The base of the larger basin has four human heads, one at each bottom corner. The upper stone was broken where the basins join and there are other signs of damage. Repairs appear to be crude, very amateurish. Like many of the baptismal fonts in Brittany, this one stands under a tall canopy [cf. Images], as tall as the ceiling of the nave allows, although, by Breton standards, this is a rather restrained example. [Cf. Index entry for La Baussaine and other such Breton double-fonts]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 580340 5337364
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.184444, -1.918889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 11' 4.0" N, 1° 55' 8.0" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (both)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, octagonal (both)
Drainage System: centre hole (small basin only)
Drainage Notes: The large basin has no drainage, as is common in these double-fonts
Notes on Measurements: On-site visit: unable to take measurements. For a similar size font cf. Index entry for La Baussaine
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, bronze/copper?
Notes: There is evidence of the original hinges on the basin rim. The present covers, two octagonal pyramids with large finial crosses, are of a much later date
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 992
- Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. and caption on p. 30