Montreuil-le-Gast / Monasteriolum / Monstereul le Gast / Montereul le Gast / Montoereul le Gast / Montroelh-le-Gas / Mosterol / Mosterolli / Mousterel-ar-Gwast

Results: 14 records

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - couchant

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - dog - couchant

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lioness

Scene Description: Also identified as a "loup musele" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

human figure

Scene Description: Bust and arms only

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

human figure

Scene Description: Bust and arms only

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - head - with three faces

Scene Description: Trinity?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

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)."

Image Source: 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 - lintel

Scene Description: tomb stone dated 1628 re-used in the mid-19thC building

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 - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Façade occidental et flanc méridional de l'église Saint-Sulpice à Montreuil-le-Gast (35)."

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: flat and plain cover; appears modern

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03403MON

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Sulpice

Church Patron Saints: St. Sulpicius [aka Sulpitius]

Church Location: 35520 Montreuil-le-Gast, France

Country Name: France

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

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 Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, N side

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font

Church Notes: early church doumented 1158; present church 1845; a tomb stone re-used bears date 1628 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00130784]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.246499, -1.726557

Church 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: pentagonal (mounted) (double-font)

Basin Interior Shape: pentagonal (both basins)

Basin Exterior Shape: pentagonal

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 Notes: The basin lining is no longer in the font. On-site visit did not have access to it. [cf. FontNotes]

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 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