Sizun
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Results: 17 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - round - with insert
Scene Description: the inserts are shell-shaped, fitted into the arch-heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: a view of the auxiliary basin and its drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2012 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sizun_(29)_Église_Saint-Suliau_Extérieur_02.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: part of the 'enclos paroissial" of Sizun -- Source caption: "Arc de triomphe de l'église Saint-Suliau de Sizun (France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edouard Hue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2013 by Edouard Hue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arc_de_triomphe_de_l'église_Saint-Suliau,_Sizun,_France.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - charnelhouse, ossuary
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ossuaire de l'église Saint-Suliau de Sizun (France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edouard Hue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2013 by Edouard Hue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ossuaire_de_l'église_Saint-Suliau,_Sizun,_France.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - charnelhouse, ossuary - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sizun (Bretagne, Finistère) Schlange mit Frauenkopf am Giebel der Begräbniskapelle. Auf dem Körper im Flachrelief Zweig des Apfelbaumes. Die Schlange erscheint im MA. nach apokrypher Überlieferung (Schatzhöhle Kap.4 und auch Legenda aurea) vielfach mit Frauenkopf oder -oberkörper ähnlich der Eva."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manfred Escherig, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2007 by Manfred Escherig [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sizun_Schlange02.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: after the 2010-2011 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lamiot, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by Lamiot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EgliseSizun2012_92.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 3 January 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: before the 2010-2011 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Moreau.henri, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2008 by Moreau.henri [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:015.Sizun.L'intérieur_de_l'église.Vue_générale.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 3 January 2018]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church interior - pulpit
Scene Description: after the 2010-2011 restoration of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lamiot, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2012 by Lamiot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ÉgliseSizun2012_108.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 3 January 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
view of font and canopy, baldachin
Scene Description: after the 2010-2011 restoration of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2012 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sizun_(29)_Église_Saint-Suliau_Fonts-baptismaux_02.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 3 January 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and canopy, baldachin in context
Scene Description: after the 2010-2011 restoration of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2013 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sizun_(29)_Église_Saint-Suliau_Fonts-baptismaux_01.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 3 January 2018]
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view of font and canopy, baldachin in context
Scene Description: in June 2000, before the 2010-2011 restoration of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2000 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02777SIZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Suliau
Church Patron Saints: St. Sulian [aka Silian, Silin, Suliau]
Church Location: 29450 Sizun, France
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located off the D18A-D764 crossroads, 40 km S of Roscoff (follow the D69 from Roscoff; after Landivisiau turn into the D30 and then into the D18).
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper - Léon
Historical Region: Pays de Landivisiau, Bretagne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath a baldaquin
Date: 1679
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: baldaquin font (double font)
Cognate Fonts: Comana's (No. 1) and Guimiliau (No. 1) double-fonts nearby
Church Notes: church 16th and 18thC; restored 2010-2011 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090450]: "De l'église du 16e siècle ne restent que les deux premières travées de la nef et des bas-côtés, ainsi que le porche méridional. De 1638 à 1643, élévation du transept. En 1665, reconstruction du choeur et de l'abside. Le clocher date de 1723-1735". -- church interior has interesting carpentry work, especially the 'sablières'
Font Notes:
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Similar to the Comana No.1 and Guimiliau No. 1 fonts [cf. corresponding entries in the Index], all three with a small protrusion serving as a second basin. The second basin of the Sizun font is fully constructional and rests on a brace-like base which directs the weight of the basin to the column of the base. The date "1679" is carved on the side of the small basin. The main basin is octagonal, tapering in steps towards the base. The base has a blind arcade but there is a shell at the top in each of the arches. The font is done in a course gold-brown granite. The large wooden baldaquin has a railing on which rest the eight columns which support the multi-level roof.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.4057, -4.0782
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 24′ 20.52″ N, 4° 4′ 41.52″ W
UTM: 30U 420204 5361955
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)(double font)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: The drain hole, in the small basin, is near the side which joins it to the larger basin
Rim Thickness: 10-13 cm (basin1)
Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm (basin1); 27 x 27 cm (basin2)
Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm (basin1, diagonal of the octagon); 34 x 33 cm (basin2)
Basin Depth: 23 cm (basin1); 10 cm (basin2)
Basin Total Height: 40 cm (basin1)
Height of Base: 56 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSi on-site [NB: the depth of basin of the main basin was measured from the upper rim of the basin to the lead lining]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: On the side of the small basin
Inscription Text: "1679"
Inscription Source: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: A flat modern lid covers the larger basin. The font has a lead lining insert with a top on which there is small hole as if to hold a small bowl, probably of later addition and use.
REFERENCES
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985