Cornille / Cornelleyum / Cornildeium / Cornillé / Kornilieg
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Scene Description: the former font now used as a holy-water stoup
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [19953500931X] by Guy Artur and Norbert Lambart, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR53_19953500931X] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR53_19953500931X] [accessed 29 July 2023]
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view of font, canopy, baldachin and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2016 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornillé_(35)_Église_Saint-Melaine_Fonts_baptismaux_01.JPG] [accessed 23 January 2017]
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inscription
Scene Description: incised on the front side: "1554"
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [19953500931X] by Guy Artur and Norbert Lambart, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR53_19953500931X] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR53_19953500931X] [accessed 29 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [19953500931X] by Guy Artur and Norbert Lambart, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR53_19953500931X] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR53_19953500931X] [accessed 29 July 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © François Goglins, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2014 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornillé-FR-35-centre_du_village-04.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible in the foreground, left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2016 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornillé_(35)_Église_Saint-Melaine_Intérieur_01.JPG] [accessed 23 January 2017]
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design element - motifs - moulding - 2
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [19953500931X] by Guy Artur and Norbert Lambart, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR53_19953500931X] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR53_19953500931X] [accessed 29 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - foliage - 4
Scene Description: a small one at each of the four angles
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [19953500931X] by Guy Artur and Norbert Lambart, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR53_19953500931X] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR53_19953500931X] [accessed 29 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04023COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1554
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid)
Cognate Fonts: This is a common type of stoup in the area
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Melaine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Melaine [Melanius, Mellion]
Church Notes: present church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00007774]: "Eglise du 15e siècle", modified in the 17th and 19thC.
Church Address: 35500 Cornillé, France
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the RN157, 7 km SW of Vitré, E of Rennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rennes
Font Notes:
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Palissy [ref.: IM35002119] lists a former baptismal font here now used as holy-water stoup: "bénitier [...] Anciens fonts baptismaux [...] Date [1554] sur la cuve et inscription illisible dans un cartouche [...] ornementation : fleur de lys, griffe" [NB: the 'griffe' refers to the four little foliage motifs on the lower base]. Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000) as a 16th-century octagonal mounted stoup; the upper rim has a moulding and there are some incisions (graffiti?) on the basin sides with the date "1554" and other illegible signs. The stem of the base is octagonal and the lower base volume is square, both plain. There is a large and beautiful 17th-century baldaquin in this church: a railing around the font, a backdrop with scenes of baptism and a painted polygonal canopy, all in wood. The baptismal font in use itself is a common pedestal-type from the 19th century [not listed here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 626169 5326513
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.079397, -1.305994
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 4′ 45.83″ N, 1° 18′ 21.58″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM35002119] [and "64 la."]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on a basin side
Inscription Text: "1554"
Inscription Notes: There appear to be several incisions or graffiti but the date is the only legible part
Inscription Source: Palissy [ref.: IM35002119]; Le patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine (2000, v. 2, p. 1694)
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000, vol. 2, p. 1694