Brie / Brie in Janzé
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03993BRI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: In the Chapelle de la Sainte-Trinité, Le Haut-Beauchêne
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted, to the left of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Janzé, arrondissement de Rennes (the former chapel is now a farm building)
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: the old chapel is now a farm building and the stoup is still there
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a granite stoup ornamented on the sides, according to the source, with two geometric carvings which resemble a Sacre-Coeur wrapped in two acanthus leaves; the upper part or 'backdrop' of the stoup is detached and of a different stone, sandstone. The same source dates it to the 11th-12th century. [NB: if both the dating and the identification of the motifs are correct, this is indeed a 'rara avis']
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (basin) sandstone (backdrop)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: other
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Basin Total Height: 50 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 50 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 80 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *NB: measurements given simply as "80 x 70 x 50 cm" in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000, v. 1, p. 756)
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 756