Bazouges-la-Perouse No. 1 / Bazeleg-ar-Veineg / Bazój-la-Pérózz / Bazouges-la-Pérouse / Bazouges la Pierreuse
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: Many leaves radiating from the centre towards the outside
view of church exterior - north view
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02783BAZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne prieurale] de Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, Bazouges-la-Pérouse
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 35560 Bazouges-la-Pérouse, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located 44 km N of Rennes (take the D175 from Rennes to Tremblay (38 kms); at Tremblay veer left on the D796 direction Combourg-Dinan)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 18th - 19th century, Modern
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Font Notes:
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This late marble font has an oval basin with two inner wells, plus the rectangular receptacles for crism, etc. ; the upper part of the basin is wide and ornamented only with upper and lower plain mouldings; the narrower underbowl has a leaf motif decoration imitating ribs. The pedestal of the base starts at the top with a flat truncated oval cone, then a basket-like larger part ornamented with tall thin arches and then a narrower oval foot which terminates in a small rectangular plinth. The cover is made of metal (copper) and shaped like a flat shallow dome, over another wider one, and has a brass cross as finial. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM35000711]: "fonts baptismaux [...] marbre [...] Vasque elliptique sur pied cannelé de plan ovale [...] 1er quart 19e siècle (?)"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.425799, -1.575034
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 25′ 32.87″ N, 1° 34′ 30.12″ W
UTM: 30U 605417 5364609
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round (double well)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: The drain hole runs from the inner side of one of the wells and connects with the centre channel of the base
Rim Thickness: 9 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm (each of the two basins)
Diameter (includes rim): 82 x 114 cm* / 85 x 110 cm**
Basin Depth: 25 cm (each of two wells)
Basin Total Height: 37 cm
Height of Base: 56 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: IM35000711] [NB: the outer diameter refers to the diameters (min. & max.) of the elipse. The basin has also two rectangular receptacles (15 x 20 cm each)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th - 18th century?
Material: metal, copper
Notes: With a brass cross finial.
REFERENCES
Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994