Guengat
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02806GUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Fiacre de Guengat
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Fiacre [aka Fiachra]
Church Address: 13 Rue de Bretagne, 29180 Guengat, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 91 06 16
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Guengat is 15 km NW of Quimper (off the D765 dir. Douarnenez)
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a French double-font, octagonal of Gothic style.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 410179 5321671
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.042, -4.2051
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 2′ 31.2″ N, 4° 12′ 18.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 764 footnote 1 and p. 775 footnote 4