Meillac

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: one such appears in the centro of one of the basin sides

INFORMATION

FontID: 03986MEI
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: In the canton de Combourg, arrondissement de Saint-Malo
Font Location in Church: Formerly in the courtyard of the old presbitery (which is now the Mairie); moved later into the parish church
Date: 1423
Century and Period: 15th century (early), Late Medieval
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a stoup dated by an inscription to 1423; it appears to be made ob a single block of granite; the basin is square, tall and narrow, with a tallish chamfer, both ornamented with foliage and rosette motif; the basin sides bear an inscription said to be the oldest in the 'canton'; the stem of the base is an octagonal pedestal and the lower base is square, both plain.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: pedestal stoup
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the basin side(s)
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000, v. 1, p. 455)

REFERENCES

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