Carnac / Karnag
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: the tower perched right onto the east end of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikicaro, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2010 by Wikicaro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Cornély_de_Carnac.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 03457CAR
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Cornély de Carnac
Church Patron Saints: St. Cornelius
Church Location: 56034 Carnac, France
Country Name: France
Location: Morbihan, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located just S of Ploemel, NW of St-Nazaire, just W of the Golfe de Morbihan, at the entrance of the isthmus of the Presqu'Ile de Quiberon, 11 kms S of Auray on the D768
Font Location in Church: Located in a designated baptismal chapel
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: there is local claim to a Romanesque church here originally [www.infobretagne.com/carnac.htm] [accessed 3 March 2017] -- early-17thC church listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00091103]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Like the fonts at Roche, Villeseque and Bagneres-de-Bigorre, this one is encased in an "armoire creusee" (Chastel, 1966, p. 288). Octagonal chalice-shaped font in granite; its only decoration appears to be a round moulding at the lower rim of the basin; the underbowl is chamfered; the base, octagonal as well, has a short stem and then fans out to the large octagonal plinth. There is a flat octagonal wooden lid, which looks modern, with a ball finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
47.5833,
-3.07887
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
47° 34′ 59.88″ N,
3° 4′ 43.93″ W
UTM: 30T 494070 5269994
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. font notes]
REFERENCES
Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966
Le Gall, Robert, dom, Symboles catholiques, Les, Paris: Editions Assouline, 1996