Varades No. 2 / Mortiers-Plats / Varesda / Varethda

INFORMATION

FontID: 03974VAR
Church/Chapel: Ancienne chapelle des Mortiers-Plats - Les Mortiers [destroyed ca. 1850]
Church Patron Saints: St. Joseph & St. Urbanus & St. Just
Country Name: France
Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest
Directions to Site: In the canton de Varades, arrondissement d'Ancenis
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: [cf. Notes on Font]
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as one of two 17th-century granite stoups originally from the chapel founded in 1642 by Julien Mesnil and destroyed circa 1850; the other stoup is said to be buried at the base of the cross in the chapelle Saint-Joseph, a building erected in 1860. The stoup (s?) is hemispheric with pronounced protrusions at 90-degree angles. Noted in InfoBretagne [ as a 17th-century holy-water stoup.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: mortar-shape
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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