Hede No. 1 / Hédé / Hédé-Bazouges (Ille-et-Vilaine)
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Results: 8 records
view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - west end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
Scene Description: the font is damaged enough, the stone now being eaten away by lichens
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 2000 by BSI
view of font - side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 2000 by BSI
view of font - side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 2000 by BSI
view of font - side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 2000 by BSI
view of font in context
Scene Description: outside the west portal of the church; the double-font is seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 July 2000 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02774HED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Hédé
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 35630 Hédé, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Hédé is off the D3795, 20 km N of Rennes on the N137 (Rennes-Dinan)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rennes
Font Location in Church: Outside the church, N side, to the left of the W door
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Other double-fonts in the Ille-et-Vilaine area (Les Iffs, La Baussaine, etc.)
Church Notes: original church late-11th or early-12thC remained a Benedictine priory until the Revolution; restored 1864 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00130836]
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: badly weathered double-font located outside the church, to the right of the door; there is another, in even worse shape, on the left side of the main door [cf. Hédé No. 2]. It is more crudely carved than many of the other double-fonts of the area; it lacks the elegance of the fonts at Pleumeleuc, La Baussaine, Les Iffs and la Chapelle-Janson. Unlike those, this font has one massive upper base and the lower base is also commonly shared. Both basins are octagonal.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.296389, -1.801097
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 17′ 47″ N, 1° 48′ 3.95″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: five
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)(double-font)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (both basins)
Drainage Notes: Both basins were full of soil and detritus which impeded determining the drainage system
Rim Thickness: basin1(10-15 cm); basin2(4-6 cm)
Diameter (inside rim): basin1(57 cm); basin2(30 cm)
Diameter (includes rim): basin1(77-85 cm); basin2(41-43 cm)
Basin Depth: basin1(unknown); basin2(11-12 cm)
Basin Total Height: basin1(43 cm); basin2(30 cm)
Height of Base: base1(60 cm); base2(56 cm)
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: basin1(33x30 cm); basin2(15-20x24-25 cm)
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm and 86 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI. [NB: separate measurements are given for both sides of the double font because the fonts, though sharing a single platform of support, have distinguishable bases]
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