Baussaine / La Baussaine
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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge - in a rectangle
Scene Description: rectangle with a romboid inside, has loops at corners
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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge - inside a rectangle
Scene Description: rectangle with romboid inside and a branch
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design element - motifs - pine cone
Scene Description: pine cone
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design element - motifs - pine cone
Scene Description: 2 pine cones
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: 2-leaf motif
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design element - motifs - pine cone
Scene Description: 2 pine cones
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design element - motifs - circle - three
Scene Description: were they meant to be an emblem?
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design element - motifs - floral - 3-petal - 2
Scene Description: with a campaniform lower body
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
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angel - holding shield - coat of arms - Tinteniac
Scene Description: angel holding a shield
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design element - motifs - leaf - oak
Scene Description: 2 oak leaves and arrows
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design element - motifs - leaf - oak
Scene Description: 2-leaf motif
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view of basin - double basin
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: 2-leaf motif
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: on several levels of the basins
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: on both sides of the double font
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design element - motifs and symbols
Scene Description: an assortment of leaves, mouldings, etc., that emulate the decorative elements on the basins
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02772BAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-14
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Other granite double-fonts in Ille-et-Vilaine
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de Saint-Léon-le-Grand
Font Location in Church: Inside the church. W end, N side, beneath a baldaquin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leo the Great
Church Notes: The church building dates originally from the second half of the 15th century but it was much altered in the middle of the 16th (Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000, v. 2, p. 1637))
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Take the N137 N from Rennes for 24 kms; at the crossroads with the D20 (dir. Becherel-Medreac) make a left (west); La Baussaine is 7.5 kms W on that road.
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Rennes
Font Notes:
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Superb example of the Ille-et-Vilaine granite double-fonts: the octagonal basins are a matching set, one slightly smaller than the other; in this case there is a "coupling" joint between the two basins, beautifully carved with a winged angel holding a coat of arms [Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) identifies the coat of arms as belonging to the sires de Tinténiac, since the parish was part of the 'seigneurie']; the basins have rope mouldings at top and bottom, a motif which appears again at the top and bottom of the shafts which make up the middle of the separate bases; the twin basins are carved with vegetal motifs on the visible sides. The base shafts are also octagonal and decorated with different motifs; they rest on square feet and the whole is raised on a plinth [On-site notes and Malle (1994)]. Denise Robet-Maynial, in her entry in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) dates the font to the 14th century, but this is rather unlikely. Also dated 14th-century in Palissy [ref.: PM35000040]: " Fonts baptismaux géminés : double cuve sur pied propre à chacune d'elle. Elles sont réunies par un petit héraut en bas-relief. Les deux cuves sont hexagonales, à double torsade entourant une frise d'arbres. Le pied, hexagonal, est terminé en haut et en bas, par une torsade. [...] Armoiries : armes de Tinténiac. [...] 14e siècle".
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.312287, -1.897358
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 18′ 44.23″ N, 1° 53′ 50.49″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, octagonal (both)
Drainage System: Side drainage system
Drainage Notes: one of the basins has a drain; the other does not, as it is on most French double-basin fonts of this period
Rim Thickness: basin2 (8-11 cm); basin1 (7-8.5 cm)
Diameter (inside rim): basin2 (49 cm); basin1 (38-39 cm)
Diameter (includes rim): basin2 (65-70 cm); basin1 (48-53 cm)
Basin Depth: basin2 (25 cm); basin1 (17 cm)
Basin Total Height: basin2 (50 cm); basin1 (50 cm)
Height of Base: basin2 (53 cm); basin1 (53 cm)
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: the lower base is a rectangle (105x40 cm) on which rest the two upper bases. The link between the two basins at the top is also rectangular (27x16 cm inside)]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: The beautiful wooden font covers are painted in gold and green.
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV A 6
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 1637
- Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. on p. 31, caption on p. 30