Ferre / Le Ferré

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03998FER
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul [orig. from a chapel at La Phélipotière]
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 Louvigné-du-Désert, arrondissement de Fougères
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: the source dates it to the Middle Ages but it was taken from a 1662 chapel and now installed in the parish church
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a stoup from the Middle Ages originally from the 1662 chapel which existed at La Phélipotière together with some inscribed lintels now in the parish church. The granit pedestal stoup has a cylindrical basin on whose side protrudes a carved head which the source [cf. supra] akin to influences from the Middle East as well as Byzantium and the kingdoms of Scandinavia; next to the head there appears to be some palmette motif or similar. The pedestal base is a cylindrical column with round capital and square base.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 825