Guerande No. 1 / Guérande

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église principalement de style gothique renaissance (bâtie aux 14 et 15e siècles)."

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Image Source: digital photograph 28 December 2008 by Cbasto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guérande_Collégiale_Saint-Aubin.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2023]

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view of church interior - calvary cross - base

Scene Description: Palissy [ref.: PM44001587]: "Socle de calvaire daté du 11e siècle ou du 12e siècle".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023

Image Source: edited detail of a 2015 digital photograph by Laurent Delpire, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA044_20204401010] [accessed 18 December 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a June 1887 B&W photograph, in Mémoire: APMH00001352 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Aubin_(ancienne_collégiale)_-_Vue_intérieure_de_la_nef_vers_le_choeur_-_Guérande_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00001352.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2023]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux actuellement bénitier, Vue générale (avec le bénitier ajouté)."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2006

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Denis Pillet in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_19864401591X] [accessed 18 December 2023]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux actuellement bénitier, Projet."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2006

Image Source: digital image of a B&W drawing digitally reproduced by Denis Pillet in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20054400738NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]

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view of stoup - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: "Relevé de fonts baptismaux à Guérande"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Alexis Brandt, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a ca.1871 drawing [ARO 1981 869 3 19 1] by Victor Ruprich-Robert in the Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/releve-de-fonts-baptismaux-guerande-62892] [accessed 18 December 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03958GUE
Church/Chapel: Collégiale Saint-Aubin de Guérande
Church Patron Saints: St. Albinus of Angers [aka Aubin]
Church Location: 6 Pl. Saint-Aubin, 44350 Guérande, France -- Tel.: +33 2 40 24 90 68
Country Name: France
Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of the D774 and D213, 15 km W of Saint-Nazaire, about 55 km W of Nantes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nantes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the S doorway
Century and Period: 15th century [base only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 16thC -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108621]: "Eglise Saint-Aubin (ancienne collégiale) [...] 12e siècle ; 16e siècle"
This object is illustrated in a ca.1871 drawing by Victor Ruprich-Robert in the Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/releve-de-fonts-baptismaux-guerande-62892] [accessed 18 December 2023]; the drawing is captioned "Relevé de fonts baptismaux à Guérande". Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as a composite stoup: the base is a 13th-century cluster of colonnettes mounted on a square plinth, while the square basin whose sides are ornamented with trefoil motifs is of a later date. The entry for this object in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/dossier/IM44008467] [accessed 18 December 2023] describes and illustrates it as a composite stoup, consisting of a 15th-century baptismal font now used as base for a neo-Gothic stoup basin ["Fonts baptismaux du XVe siècle actuellement recouverts d'une cuve carrée néogothique à usage de bénitier, dont ils constituent maintenant le socle [...] plan, octogonal, colonne, 8 [...] granite, taillé [...] h = 70 ; la = 70 ; pr = 70 (dimensions sans le socle) [...] Constitue le pied d'un bénitier actuellement"]. Another object of interest in this church is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM44001587] as the granite base of a [churchyard?] cross: "Socle de calvaire daté du 11e siècle ou du 12e siècle" [cf. ImagesArea].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.32808, -2.429065
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 19′ 41.09″ N, 2° 25′ 44.63″ W
UTM: 30T 543139 5241782

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (base only)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999