Landerneau
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03754LAN
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Houardon de Landernau
Font Location in Church: Just outside the door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Houardon
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...]
Church Address: 29800 Landerneau, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 85 03 20
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D712, 22 kms E of Brest
Font Notes:
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Listed in Enlart (1902) as a stoup located on the outside of the entrance to this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 407497 5367270
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.451769, -4.251033
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 27′ 6.37″ N, 4° 15′ 3.72″ W
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, p. 784 footnote 4
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 319