Beauce / Beaucé

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03987BEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: At the end of the nave (formerly wall-mounted on the south side)
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Fougères-Nord, arrondissement de Fougères.
Additional Comments: recycled font: a double-font now used as stoup
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a granite double font of the 15th century. The two basins appear to be about the same size and shape, octagonal, and are from a single block of stone; they are ornamented with trefoil arches. The rectangular base appears to be a separate stone, also in one piece, and runs the length of the two basins. The source [cf. supra] informs that the font used to be embeded in the south wall ("intégrés dans le mur sud de la nef") but were later moved to the end of the nave and are now used as holy-water stoup (Ibid., v. 1, p. 563)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, octagonal (both)

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 563