Landerneau

INFORMATION

FontID: 03754LAN
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Houardon de Landernau
Church Patron Saints: St. Houardon
Church Location: 29800 Landerneau, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 85 03 20
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located off the D712, 22 kms E of Brest
Font Location in Church: Just outside the door
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church Notes: The church of Saint-Houardon has a "fine Renaissance porch of 1604" (France, 1985, p. 319). There is an interesting stoup in the cemetery at the nearby La Roche-Maurice [cf. Index entry for La Roche...]
Font Notes:
Listed in Enlart (1902) as a stoup located on the outside of the entrance to this church

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.451769, -4.251033
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 27′ 6.37″ N, 4° 15′ 3.72″ W
UTM: 30U 407497 5367270

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985