Varades No. 2 / Mortiers-Plats / Varesda / Varethda
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03974VAR
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne chapelle des Mortiers-Plats - Les Mortiers [destroyed ca. 1850]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Joseph & St. Urbanus & St. Just
Church Notes: [cf. Notes on Font]
Site Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Varades, arrondissement d'Ancenis
Font Notes:
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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.
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, vol. 2, p. 1330