Iffs No. 1 / Les Iffs
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Results: 18 records
view of font
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the smaller of the two basins
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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: on the smaller basin
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design element - motifs - leaf - oak
Scene Description: Oak leaves (Malle's identification) on the sides of both basins
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: on both basins
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: showing the drainage in one of the basins; also visible are the lead plugs and the damage related to an old font cover hardware in the upper rims of both basins
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view of church exterior - south porch
view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Armael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint_Ouen_1.JPG] [accessed 25 November 2016]
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view of font in context
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view of church interior
Scene Description: showing the double font on the left and the font/stoup on the right
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view of object in context
Scene Description: is it a former font or stoup, or just a medieval mortar?
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view of font context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2011 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_Iffs_-_Église_07.JPG] [accessed 25 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Armael [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint_Ouen_5.JPG] [accessed 25 November 2016]
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design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: very crude, on the stem of the smaller side
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the smaller side
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the shared lower base, both sides
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view of object
Scene Description: is it a former font or stoup, or just a medieval mortar?
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02775IFF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-15
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Other double-fonts in the Ille-et-Vilaine area (Hede, La Baussaine)
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Ouen des Iffs
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090602] -- Two stoups noted in this church. The combination of ermine and fleur-de-lis is, according to Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000), an indication that this church was under the suzerainty of the Duchy of Brittany and the Crown of France. See also the Index entry for the stoup(s) of this church [cf. Les Iffs No. 2]
Church Address: 35630 Les Iffs, France
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located near Tinténiac, at the C3-C4 crossing, 20 km N of Rennes, off the N137 towards Béchere, and only a few kms across from Hédé where another double-font is reported by Malle (1984) outside the church
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rennes, Dol & St Malo
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: double-font of the type common in this area: two octagonal basins with ornamented sides (fleur-de-lis and oak leaves); the pedestal bases, as is often the case in these fonts, are differently shaped, one round, the other octagonal. The whole rests on a rectangular lower base. Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) identifies it as the work of a local workshop.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584065 5348952
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.288185, -1.86672
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 17′ 17.47″ N, 1° 52′ 0.19″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, octagonal (both)
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: The drain exists only in the smaller basin
Rim Thickness: basin1(8-10 cm); basin2(7-9 cm)
Diameter (inside rim): basin1(54 cm); basin2(39 cm)
Diameter (includes rim): basin1(69-75 cm); basin2(53-57 cm)
Basin Depth: basin1(23 cm); basin2(16 cm)
Basin Total Height: basin1(35 cm); basin2(45 cm)
Height of Base: basin1(60 cm); basin2(50 cm)
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 28 cm (both basins)
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI. [NB: the two upper bases share a common rectangular lower base (105x45 cm)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: Both font covers are plain and octagonal.
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV A 87
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 181
- Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. and caption on p. 33