Becherel No. 1 / Béchérel
Results: 20 records
view of font - upper view
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2000 by BSI
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view of font
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animal - mammal - simian - monkey - head
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human figure - head - crowned
Scene Description: or is it a hat?
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animal - mammal - bear or lion - head
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cleric - bishop - head
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design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: A row of half-balls adorns the upper rim of the inside well
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human figure - head
Scene Description: At the upper border of the basin
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human figure - head
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animal - mammal - hare or rabbit
Scene Description: a rabbit or hare crouches at the upper border of the basin, face up
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view of font or stoup in context
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view of church exterior - atrium or narthex
Scene Description: showing the two vessels now used as stoups
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alec, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2007 by Alec [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bécherel_-_Notre_Dame_(interno).jpg][accessed 9 November 2013]
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animal - reptile - lizard or salamander?
Scene Description: On the arris, facing down
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animal - reptile - snake - head
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03226BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-14
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: other fonts with heads in this region at: Corseul, Dinan, Erquy, Perros-Guirec, Pleur-Tuit and Saint-Malo.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de Notre-Dame de Béchérel
Font Location in Church: In the narthex, left-hand side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00007892]: "Eglise priorale mentionnée au 12e siècle détruite, dépendait de l'abbaye de Marmoutiers. L'église actuelle conserve du 17e siècle le clocher-porche (jusqu'au milieu de la chambre des cloches). Elle a été reconstruite en 1866 (date par travaux historiques) sous la direction de Jacques Mellet. Flèche du clocher construite en 1898 (daté par source) sous la direction d'Arthur Regnault et de l'entrepreneur Bourdon. Un projet de reconstruction de l'église avait été réalisé en 1849 en style néo-roman par Viollet-le-Duc, ce projet avait été refusé, malgré la célébrité de son auteur, car il proposait, en outre, la suppression du clocher-porche."
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 25 kms NW of Rennes. There are several interesting fonts in that immediate area: la Baussaine, Les Iffs, Tinténiac, Hédé, etc.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse Ille-et-Vilaine
Additional Comments: recycled stoup / recycled font (this font and its companion on the right hand side of the narthex serve now (June 2000) as holy water stoups and decoration. Standing only 68 cm tall, there must be a missing part if this served as a baptismal font)
Font Notes:
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The chalice-shaped stone font at Bécherel has a round basin with seven prominent human heads and one rabbit/hare around the upper part of the basin; the heads are assorted and all different, two of them crowned. The base is round at the top and square at the bottom; two of the arrises have reptiles carved on them. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM35001212]: "Fonts baptismaux (?) servant de vasque [...] granite [...] Cuve circulaire sur socle évasé passant du plan carré au plan circulaire [...] représentation animalière (lapin, lézard) ; figure (tête : homme) ; ornementation (boule) [...] 15e siècle". Dated 15th-century also in the ISMH, as cited in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000). This font and its companion on the right hand side of the narthex serve now (June 2000) as holy-water stoups and decoration. Standing only 68 cm tall, there must be a missing part if this served as a baptismal font originally.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 578353 5349637
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.295077, -1.943586
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 17′ 42.28″ N, 1° 56′ 36.91″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, square-to-round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: none
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm* [95 cm* with the heads included]
Basin Depth: 25 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Height of Base: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm* / 70 cm**
Square Base Dimensions: 62 x 62 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site. [NB: if this was a baptismal font it must have lost the upper part of the base, a block of some 30-40 cm] / ** [Palissy [ref.: IM35001212]]
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 166
- Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. and caption on p. 83