Saint-Ouen-la-Rouerie / Rouërie

INFORMATION

FontID: 03979OUE
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Ouen
Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: In the canton d'Antrain, arrondissement de Fougères
Century and Period: 16th century,
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
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: octagonal (mounted)(double-font)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (basin1) pentagonal (basin2)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000