Saint-Malo No. 1 / Saent-Malô / Saint-Malô / Sant-Maloù

Results: 8 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

human figure - male - 6

Scene Description: Six forward-facing human figures, their hands and legs stretched, circle the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the figures

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine, 50) : vestige de l'ancien cloître à la cathédrale Saint-Vincent."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2013 by Philippe Alès [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Malo_(France),_former_cloister_of_cathedral_Saint-Vincent.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 September 2007 by Gérard Janot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SaintMaloCathédrale.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: like the restored font, the main altar and the chair on the right are the work of Arcabas [Jean-Marie Pirot]

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Mariaje Calvo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 November 2022)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the restored font, by Arcabas [Jean-Marie Pirot]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Mariaje Calvo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 November 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 03397MAL

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne Cathédrale Saint-Vincent-de-Saragosse de Saint-Malô [orig. from the Eglise paroissiale de Paramé]

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent of Saragosse

Church Location: 12 Rue Saint-Benoist, 35400 Saint-Malo, France -- Tel.: +33 2 99 40 82 31

Country Name: France

Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne

Directions to Site: Located 18 km N of Dinan, 75 km N of Rennes, on the Manche litoral

Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo [formerly in the ancienne diocèse de Saint-Malo]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, centre of the nave

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font

Cognate Fonts: There are several other such fonts with figures holding up the basin in the Manche and Cote-d'Armor.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mariaje Calvo for her photographs of this font

Church Notes: original church 7thC and 9thC; re-built mid-12th; modified 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090798]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) gives the origin of this font as the old parish church at Paramé; from there it was transferred circa 1860 to the old museum of Saint-Malo; the new base and cover were done in 1993 by Arcabas [Jean-Marie Pirot] and Étienne, the artists responsible for the main altar of this cathedral. [On-site notes: the modern reconstruction of this double-font uses green metal and modern design to fill in the missing parts with a striking effect. The original one-piece stone double-basin has large forward-facing figures around it, their hands and legs stretched and touching in some cases. The basins are chipped and broken in several parts, some of the heads missing or damaged. The stumps left under the basins indicate that the original base was made up of two separate octagonal columns].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.649444, -2.025556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 38′ 58″ N, 2° 1′ 32″ W

UTM: 30U 571772 5388946

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one (basin only)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) (double-font)

Basin Interior Shape: N/A (probably octagonal)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (both basins)

Drainage Notes: The modern reconstruction has blocked the view of the inside of the basins

Basin Total Height: 53 cm*

Height of Base: 47 cm* [modern base]

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* [includes modern base]

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: the length of the double-basin is 130 cm.; most other measurements are not available due to the reconstruction]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French

Inscription Location: lid (modern)

Inscription Text: "EVEILLE TOI - O TOI QUI DORS ET SUR TOI LE CHRIST RESPLENDIRA - EPH. 5/14"

Inscription Source: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, bronze

Notes: The lids form part of the reconstruction

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000