Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 03971PHI
Church/Chapel: Abbatiale de Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu
Church Patron Saints: St. Philbert [aka Filbertus]
Country Name: France
Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest
Directions to Site: In the canton de Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu, arrondissement de Nantes
Font Location in Church: By the original transept arch
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century,
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church Notes: The source [cf. supra] informs that the basin located before the font is a "lavabo" or piscina.
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as a granite double-font dated from the time when the the abbey church functioned as parish church. The main volume is an octagonal mounted font with a stem and base of the same shape; the smaller volume, on the other hand, is rounded from the basin (semicircular) to the stem and the lower base. It appears that there is a division of the main basin well via a metal insert.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)(volume1) round (volume2)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (basin1) semicircular (basin2)

REFERENCES

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