Saint-Ouen-la-Rouerie / Rouërie
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03979OUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Ouen
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton d'Antrain, arrondissement de Fougères
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a 16th century double-font made of a single block of granite. The basins are of a different shape, the larger being octagonal, and the smaller pentagonal; both are plain. It has a shared base . The source [cf. supra] informs that this font comes from the old church replaced by the present building in the 19th century.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal 2) pentagonal
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 72