Lehon / Léhon
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Results: 18 records
animal - fish - 6?
Scene Description: 3/4 of them still discernible around the clogged drain hole (here covered with a dish)
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches
Scene Description: each arch has an oak leaf in it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vigneron, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2013 by Vigneron [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_-_abbatiale_bénitier.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: a rather awkward-looking one, breaking the pattern of ponted arches filled with oak leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: some of it links the heabas together, while others just 'float' in the spandrels and spaces between
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - foliage - varied
Scene Description: one in each arch of the arcade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_(22)_Abbatiale_8.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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design element - motifs - trefoil
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: curiously rather less rudely carved than the outside of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth
Scene Description: he heads are definitely human, though crude and sketchy, each meant to look different from the others
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vigneron, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2013 by Vigneron [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_-_abbatiale_bénitier.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth
Scene Description: the heads are definitely human, though crude and sketchy, each meant to look different from the others
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_(22)_Abbatiale_9.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_(22)_Abbatiale_1.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the old font in the foreground, south side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_(22)_Abbatiale_5.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Yves Thomas, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph By Jean-Yves Thomas [www.bretagneweb.com] [accessed 7 November 2013]
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Léhon_(22)_Abbatiale_8.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2013]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03823LEH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale [Abbaye St-Magloire] [aka Eglise du prieuré Saint-Magloire]
Church Patron Saints: St. Magloire [aka Maelor. Magloire of Dol, Maglorius, Mégloire, Melorius [but not the same as St. Melor]]
Church Location: 18 Le Bourg, 22100 Léhon, France
Country Name: France
Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located 1.5 kms SW of Dinan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et Tréguier
Historical Region: formerly Côtes-du-Nord
Font Location in Church: Inside the abbey church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: other "fish" fonts (Dinan, etc.)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jean-Yves Thomas, of www.bretagneweb.com, and to Joost Limburg of their photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Enlart (1902) as having a stoup in the form of a "belle vasque du XIIIe siècle; circulaire avec quatre têtes en saillie à la partie inférieure." Enlart refers to its basin well as having ribbed pattern ornamentation on the inside, and a later reference he mentions its "vasque circulaire" and groups it with other stoups which rest directly on the ground without support (p. 786 fn 1). Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM22000511]: "bénitier [...] granite [...] Ancienne cuve baptismale circulaire. Décor d'arcatures sous les quelles sont alternativement découpées une palme et une feuille de chêne. Sous la frise, une rangée de mascarons séparés par des feuilles de chêne ou de vigne. [...] 13e siècle". The font, originally a baptismal font used later as a holy-water stoup, has a cylindrical basin the upper side of which is decorated with an arcade of pointed arches; in each of the arches is an oak leaf; the lower half of the side is decorated with the four protruding heads at 90-degrre angles mentioned in Enlart [cf. supra] and foliage motif in between; the heads are human and all clearly different, and they all appear to have vegetation stemming out of the sides of the mouths [NB: a motif akin to the serpents that link humans and animals on the bases of many medieval Scandinavian fonts]; the inner basin is indeed highly decorated, not only with a complex tracery of pointed arches around the sides, but also with six (?) fish, four of which are still discernible destipte the erosion of the bottom; curiously the workmanship of the interior of the basin appears more sophisticated than the one on the exterior, the latter being of a rather irregular and crude execution; the base is made up of two roll mouldings raised on a square lower base or plinth. [NB: the font or stoup, and the abbey itself, are illustrated in the web site of the Mairie de Léhon: http://person.wanadoo.frlehon-22/index.htm]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.424387, -2.072586
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 25′ 27.79″ N, 2° 4′ 21.31″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: there is an indentation in the centre of the inner basin, but it now appears blocked -- no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM22000511] " pr = 80 ; d = 110"]
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