Faou / Le Faou

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Results: 14 records

angel - cherub

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Sauveur in Le Faou im Département Finistère (Region Bretagne/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert"

animal - bird - dove

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Faou_Église_Saint-Sauveur_Fonts_baptismaux_228.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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animal - mammal - deer or gazelle

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Faou_Église_Saint-Sauveur_Fonts_baptismaux_227.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: next to the lion, below the word ETHIOPIE, with an arrow-head tongue

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP29W01487] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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human figure - hand

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

inscription - partial

symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain) - Gihon, Pison, Tigris, Euphrates (Hiddekel)

Scene Description: a scroll with each river and the Biblical description [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Faou_Église_Saint-Sauveur_Fonts_baptismaux_228.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église Saint-Sauveur du Faou."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thesupermat, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 August 2011 by Thesupermat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Faou_-_Église_Saint-Sauveur_-_PA00089925_-_001.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Sauveur in Le Faou im Département Finistère (Region Bretagne/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Faou_Église_Saint-Sauveur_Fonts_baptismaux_226.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Sauveur in Le Faou im Département Finistère (Region Bretagne/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Faou_Église_Saint-Sauveur_Fonts_baptismaux_227.jpg] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Sauveur in Le Faou im Département Finistère (Region Bretagne/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert"

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP29W01487] [accessed 22 October 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04250FAO
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Sauveur du Faou
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Church Location: 240 Rue de la Grève, 29590 Le Faou, France
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D770, W of the E60/N165, about 15 km NW of Châteaulin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper-Léon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00089925]: "L'église se compose d'une nef, d'un large transept double, d'un chevet à trois pans et pignons. Au sud, un grand porche porte les dates de 1593 et 1613. Le clocher, ajouré et allongé, est amorti par un dôme à lanternon et porte les dates de 1629, 1630, 1634 et 1640."
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as being a 16th century Gothic font and bearing on the basin sides motifs of philacteries with verses of the Genesis relative to the four rivers of Paradise. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM29000246]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Inscription rappelant les quatre fleuves du paradis terrestre (sur des phylactères courant autour de la cuve) : Phison, c'est celui qui environne toute la terre de Hévila, là où croist l'or (serpent) Fehon, c'est celui qui circuit toute la terre d'Ethiopie (lion) Tigris, c'est le troisième fleuve, va vers l'Assyrie (cerf) Inphrates c'est le quatrième [...] 16e siècle [...] pierre [...] H = 80". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W01487]. Described and illustrated also in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998): hemispheric basin ornamented with painted reliefs which include angel heads, foliage, serpents, doves, a lion, a deer, a dog, a human hand and scrolls with four inscriptions, each dedicated to one of the rivers of Paradise: le Géhon, le Phison, le Tigris et l'Euphrate, followed by verses of Genesis (?). The basin is raised on a modern cylindrical base and is covered with an old wooden lid with an iron locking bar. On the side of the underbowl there is what appears to be a drainage pipe. The source [cf. supra] informs that one of the sides of the basin was hammered off during the Revolution to expunge the coats of arms on it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.295678, -4.181242
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 17′ 44.44″ N, 4° 10′ 52.47″ W
UTM: 30U 412390 5349839

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [kersantite?]
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM29000246]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French
Inscription Notes: After the name of every one of the rivers of Paradise there follows the Biblical description
Inscription Location: on the basin sides, in the scrolls
Inscription Text: "FEHON CELVI QVI CIRCVIT LA TERRE D'ETHIOPIE [...]", "PHISON C'EST CELVI QVI [...] LA TERRE DE [...]", "TIGRIS [...]", "EUPHRATE [...]"
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998, v. 1, 437) & ImagesArea

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: The lid is old, flat and round and it has an iron locking bar

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998