Locmariaquer / Locus Matrice de Ker / Lokmaria-Kaer

Results: 17 records

B01: design element - patterns - honeycomb

Scene Description: all over the stoup

design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2019 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: framing the front panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2019 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

symbol - cross - Greek - processional cross

Scene Description: the 'handle' being very short

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2019 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietrich, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2012 by Dietrich [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LocmariquerKirche1.JPG] [accessed 19 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ji-Elle, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Ji-Elle [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Locmariaquer_(1).jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_339.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_340.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_341.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_342.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_343.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_344.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_345.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2019 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro_Chapiteau_346.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2014 by Shonagon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locmariaquer-eglise.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of stoup - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2019 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of stoup in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2019 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 04255LOC
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de Locmariaquer [aka Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: rue Clemenceau / 2 place du Général de Gaulle, 56740 Locmariaquer, France
Country Name: France
Location: Morbihan, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located off the D781 [aka route d'Auray], 14 S of Auray, at the tip of the peninsula, 20-25 km SW of Vannes
Font Location in Church: wall-mounted inside the church, by the S entranceway
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Another stoup with similar ornamentation in Melrand, also in Morbihan
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this stoup
Church Notes: original (?) church built ca. 1100 by monks from Quimperlé; damage by English attack in 1548; re-built and modified 17th, 18th and 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00091388]: "Eglise des 11e-12e siècle, remaniée aux 17e et 18e siècles. Elle se compose d'une nef à deux bas-côtés, transept et choeur en cul-de-four. La nef est plus récente que le choeur, caractéristique de l'époque romane. Six chapiteaux différenciés représentent des motifs à décoration florale, animale ou géométrique. L'intersection du transept a été surmontée d'un beffroi avec clocher en 1817."
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) simply as a holy-water stoup whose surface is totally sculpted [the Dictionnaire entry for Melrand specifies honey-comb pattern similar to this one], without indication of a date [the church still has the 11th century plan of the old one but was rebuilt in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries]. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM56000545] as 15th-century. The decoration is chiefly vegetal (foliage and fruit), but does include a processional Greek cross in the centre; the decoration appears only on the front side, within a moulded frame; the two short sides being blank. The present font here is, according to Joost Limburg, similar to the one at Thégonnec, and probably from the 17th-18th century rebuilding of this church. [NB: we have no information of the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.569069, -2.944003
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 34′ 8.65″ N, 2° 56′ 38.41″ W
UTM: 30T 504212 5268407

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Trapezoidal Basin: 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM56000545]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-