Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys No. 2 / Lokentaz / Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuis
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human figure - head
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteau déposé servant de bénitier dans l'église paroissiale de Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Morbihan, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thérèse Gaigé, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 January 2022 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Int%C3%A9rieur_de_l'église_abbatiale_de_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_(56)_-_20.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: forming large patterns on the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris06, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 July 2020 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Église_abbatiale_de_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_(20).jpg] [accessed 20 September 2022]
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design element - motifs - foliage - animal heads
Scene Description: the curved tindrels meet at a lion's head (?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a
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animal - mammal - lion - bi-corporate
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Image Source: digital image of a
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animal - bird - 4
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of Église abbatiale de Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris06, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 July 2020 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Église_abbatiale_de_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_(20).jpg] [accessed 20 September 2022]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteau servant de bénitier Eglise.Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan, France."
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a band of leaves all around the lower end of the basin
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Murugarren, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2010 by Montse Murugarren
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 18 April 2010)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03058GIL
Object Type: Stoup
Object Details: capital, Romanesque
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église abbatiale de St-Gildas-de-Rhuys
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the W entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gildas [aka Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw, Gildas Sapiens, Gweltaz]
Church Notes: The abbey was founded by the English abbot Gildas and later destroyed by Vikings; the theologian Abelard arrived here in the 12th cent. to force a rule on the unruly monks of St-Gildas but ended up running for his life unable to reform the dissolute community there
Church Address: 7125 Rue Laennec, 56730 Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, France
Site Location: Morbihan, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D198, in the SW corner of the Presqu'île de Rhuys, the wedge of land which makes the outer arm of the Golfe du Morbihan. St-Gildas... is accessible via the D780 which circles the Golfe de Morbihan from Vannes (about 30 kms).
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: made up of two Romanesque capitals from a nearby abbey, the one where Abelard ...[cf. supra]
Font Notes:
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Both Enlart (1902) and the Phaidon guide to France (1985) identify the two Romanesque capitals from the abbey church which were later put to use as holy-water stoups. Illustrated in Autissier (2005), who notes that this is probably one of the two which Merimée wrote of in 1835 as large, decorated with several fantastic heads and vines twisting capriciously [="deux grands chapiteaux ornés de quelques têtes fantastiques et de rindeaux capricieusement agencés"]. The large volutes on the upper half of the stoup sides start with bird-like heads at the angles, form avian chest and wings as they curved down, and then turn into full circles on the sides of the basin, the point where the two meet decorated with an animal [lion?] head; lower down, pairs of facing passant lions share a single head, and the lower end of the stoup is decorated with a band of foliage. Autissier (ibid.) suggests somewhat reluctantly a date in the early 12th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are graeteful to Montse Murugarren for her phoptograph of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 512298 5260832
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.5008, -2.8367
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 30′ 2.88″ N, 2° 50′ 12.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square-to-round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round
REFERENCES
- Autissier, Anne, La sculpture romane en Bretagne, XIe-XIIe siècles, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005, p. 96, 328 and fig. 47
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 755-756