Saint-Etienne-de-Mer-Morte No. 2 / St-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte

Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as a granite font (or stoup) and dated to the 13th century. It is octagonal and unmounted, three of the sides plain to fit against a wall. The other five sides of the basin -informs the source- are ornamented with strange images of difficult interpretation: on two sides very crude heads appear inside circles, each with a very large eye; on the opther pages there is a squire with a shield again his chest and three letters in a triangle, T E R,; also, an odd "Mélusine au miror, woman with her body ending in a snake tail, a devil and a human head on an animal body (Ibid., v. 1, p. 563)