Pire-sur-Seiche / Piré-sur-Seiche

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03994PIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [had been outdoors between 1875 and 1981]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Janzé, arrondissement de Rennes
Additional Comments: recycled font: it was replaced by another "fancier" marble model ca. 1875 and sat outdoors until the abbé Rétif brought it back inside the church in 1981.
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a granite double-font of the late 16th century: it appears to have a main octagonal basin with a polygonal basinette, all of one block of stone; the short base is also part of the same block. The souce [cf. supra] reports that this font was taken out of the church circa 1875 [supposedly replaced by the marble oval mounted one which is still the main font in this church] and left in the open, near the bell-tower, until the abbé Rétif brought it back inside the church in 1981.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal 2) polygonal

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 1, p. 776