Lalleu

INFORMATION

FontID: 04020LAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: France
Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne
Directions to Site: In the canton de Sel-de-Bretagne, arrondissement de Redon
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Font Notes:
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a double font; it is rather rare in that both volumes of the font, the main and the auxiliary, are cylindrical from top to bottom, although the smaller volume has a crescent-shape to fit the roundness of the larger. The font appears to be monolithic but the basins are sculpted individually and there is even a trace of ornamentation in the parallel incised line around the bottom of the basins; the stems of the base are plain; the lower bases have several mouldings as ornamentation.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both)
Basin Exterior Shape: round (both)
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000, v. 2, p. 1618)

REFERENCES

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