Lanleff / Lanlev
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03612LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2013-02-17
Cognate Fonts: [cf. a similar problematic identification in the case of the "Chapelle des Templiers" in Laon]
Church / Chapel Name: Le temple de Lanleff) [aka Le temple]
Church Address: 5 Rue du Temple, 22290 Lanleff, France [cf. Directions to site]
Site Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Lanleff is 11 km W of Plouha, on the coast of the Baie-de-St-Brieuc. The building which some identify as a baptistery is located on the right bank of the Leff river.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Saint-Brieuc
Historical Region: formerly Côtes-du-Nord
Additional Comments: recycled baptistery? [cf. FontNotes]
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On the right banks of the river Leff there is a building known locally as "le temple de Lanleff" which has been identified by some as a baptistery. Corblet mentions M/[onsieur]. Legonidec, who identified it as a church dedicated to the worship of the Sun; the Count of Caylus, who believed it to be a Druid church; and M[onsieur]. Mérimée, who saw in it "une église de Templiers". Corblet himself (1881-1882), who sides with "la majorité des antiquaires", believes it to be a baptistery built earlier than the 8th century and describes it as tower-like with twelve doors which opened in the old days to a concentrical cloister of which only ruins remain [cf. the "iglesia templaria" at Eunate, in Navarre, Spain, for an example of such a construction, but octagonal and minus eleven of the doors]. Corblet also states that there is a water fountain nearby which would have supplied the water to the baptistery. (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 63-64). The Phaidon guide to France (1985) adds that though "long thought to be a Roman church, it is now held to have been rebuilt in the 11C on the model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem." (France..., 1985, p. 524-525). Whether or not it was ever used as a baptistery, the building was likely a round church built in the 11th or 12th century. [NB: we have no information of a font in it]. The present parish church dates from the mid-19th century.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.693611, -3.043333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 41′ 37″ N, 3° 2′ 36″ W
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Material: stone, unknown
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 63-64
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 524-525