Roche-Derrien No. 2 / Ar Roc'h-Derrien / Kêr ar Roc'h / La Roche-Derrien

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BH01: human figure - head

Scene Description: at least two

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2011 by Daniel Garcia Cuesta

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BH02: animal - head

Scene Description: at least two, one of them feline

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2011 by Daniel Garcia Cuesta

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view of church exterior - south view

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Daniel Garcia Cuesta

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view of stoup and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Daniel Garcia Cuesta

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02803ROC

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Catherine / Eglise Sainte-Catherine-d'Alexandrie

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]

Church Location: Place de l'Eglise, La Roche-Darrien

Country Name: France

Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne

Directions to Site: La Roche-Derrien is 15 kms SE of Perros-Guirec and 5 kms from Treguier, in the Armorican coast

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et Tréguier

Historical Region: formerly Côtes-du-Nord

Font Location in Church: in the porch

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: the original church here was apparently founded by the Augustinian canons of the priory of Sainte-Croix de Guingamp; it was damaged by the English in the mid-14th century, and re-built soon thereafter; restored at least twice in the 19th century

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a stone vessel, perhpas a holy-water stoup, now built against a corner of the porch of the church; it consists of a crudely rendered polygonal basin with several roughly carved heads, human and animal; the basin is raised on blocks forming a shapeless stem, and a squarish lower base; on the basin sides, the head at the front is definitely feline; the one at the extreme left appears human, as is the one on the extreme right; one other one looks like a fox' head.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.746745, -3.262253

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 44′ 48.28″ N, 3° 15′ 44.11″ W

UTM: 30U 481012 5399386

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood?,

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal, flat and plain