Montreuil-le-Gast / Monasteriolum / Monstereul le Gast / Montereul le Gast / Montoereul le Gast / Montroelh-le-Gas / Mosterol / Mosterolli / Mousterel-ar-Gwast
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the shape of the basin, of the two inner basins, and the old metal staples in the upper rim
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: flat and plain cover; appears modern
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
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human figure
Scene Description: Bust and arms only
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human figure
Scene Description: Bust and arms only
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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view of church exterior - south transept - west side - portal - lintel
Scene Description: tomb stone dated 1628 re-used in the mid-19thC building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 November 2011 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreuil-le-Gast_(35)_Église_02.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 28 May 2017]
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view of church exterior - south transept - west side - portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Porte occidentale du transept sud de l'église Saint-Sulpice à Montreuil-le-Gast (35)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Façade occidental et flanc méridional de l'église Saint-Sulpice à Montreuil-le-Gast (35)."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2011 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreuil-le-Gast_(35)_Église_01.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 28 May 2017]
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animal - mammal - dog - couchant
animal - mammal - lion - couchant
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - couchant
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human figure - head - with three faces
Scene Description: Trinity?
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animal - mammal - lioness
![Also identified as a "loup musele" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/MON0001203_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Also identified as a "loup musele" [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03403MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-15
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Sulpice
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sulpicius [aka Sulpitius]
Church Notes: early church doumented 1158; present church 1845; a tomb stone re-used bears date 1628 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00130784]
Church Address: 35520 Montreuil-le-Gast, France
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the DD25-D82 crossroads, NNE of Melesse, E of Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné, 16 km NNW of Rennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rennes [formerly in the diocese of Bourges]
Font Notes:
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Granite baptismal font of the 15th century listed in Palissy [ref.: IM35017919]: "Fonts monolithe à deux cuves [...] granite : mouluré, taillé à facettes, décor dans la masse, décor en demi relief ; bois : mouluré, vernis [...] tête ; animal fabuleux [...] 15e siècle [...] La cuve baptismale est en mauvais état : la pierre se délite." Noted in InfoVretagne [www.infobretagne.com/montreuil-le-gast.htm] [accessed 28 May 2017]: "Les fonts baptismaux datent du XVIème siècle." On-site notes: rectangular block of granite with two trimmed corners on one of the narrow sides; it has two basins carved inside: the larger one is square and the smaller one is the same shape as the trimmed side of the rectangle outside. Each of the corners of the outer rectangular basin has a figure, the head at the angle, bust and armas spreading outwards to the sides; one of the heads has three faces. The lower base has four animals carved on it: a lioness (identified as a "loup musele" by the abbé Brune [Paul Baneat's Le departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine (Rennes, 1928), p. 465], a dog, a lion and a dragon. It is unclear whether the date of 1534 given by Baneat as coming from the copper lining of the large basin would represent the original date of the font, though it is quite likely. The lead basin insert for the font is also listed in Palissy [ref.: IM35017945]: "plomb : fondu, gravé [...] 18e siècle (?) [...] Le bassin est percé sur les côtés ; le métal se désagrège [...] Inscription et date gravées à la pointe : MOVTOEROEUL LOE GAST L : N MIL XXXIIII [...] L'inscription lue en 1985 a pratiquement disparu."
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.246499, -1.726557
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 14′ 47.39″ N, 1° 43′ 35.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: double-font, pentagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: pentagonal (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: pentagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin (each basin)
Drainage Notes: Both basins have drains leading to a common channel
Diameter (inside rim): basin1(48.5x48.5 cm); basin2(24.5x47 cm)*
Diameter (includes rim): 118 x 79 cm" / 117.5 cm**
Basin Depth: basin1(22 cm); basin2(12 cm)*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 57 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 103 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 115 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-ste [NB:"diameter" measurements correspond to the polygonal shape of the basins] / ** Palissy [ref.: IM35017919]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: French?
Inscription Location: a metal [lead? / copper?] lining insert of the large basin [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: 1.- "MOVTEREUL LE GAST L:N MILXXXIIII"
2.- "MOVTOEROEUL LOE GAST L : N MIL XXXIIII"
Inscription Notes: The basin lining is no longer in the font. On-site visit did not have access to it. [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: 1.- Paul Baneat (1928, p. 465)
2.- Palissy [ref.: IM35017919]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plat and plain; modern -- metal staples for an earlier cover present in the upper rim
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 1367