Faou / Le Faou
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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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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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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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Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Sauveur in Le Faou im Département Finistère (Region Bretagne/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert"
animal - mammal - lion
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231022020_compressed.png)
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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symbol - the four rivers of paradise (springing from a fountain) - Gihon, Pison, Tigris, Euphrates (Hiddekel)
![a scroll with each river and the Biblical description [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231022015_compressed.png)
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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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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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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animal - reptile - snake
Scene Description: next to the lion, below the word ETHIOPIE, with an arrow-head tongue
inscription - partial
angel - cherub
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Saint-Sauveur in Le Faou im Département Finistère (Region Bretagne/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert"
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04250FAO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Sauveur du Faou
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): Our Saviour
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."
Church Address: 240 Rue de la Grève, 29590 Le Faou, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: recycled font / damaged font: one of the sides of the basin was hammered off during the Revolution to expunge the coats of arms on it
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 412390 5349839
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.295678, -4.181242
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 17′ 44.44″ N, 4° 10′ 52.47″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [kersantite?]
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: yes
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM29000246]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: French
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 Notes: After the name of every one of the rivers of Paradise there follows the Biblical description
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-, IV A 29
- Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998, vol. 1, p. 437