Locmariaquer / Locus Matrice de Ker / Lokmaria-Kaer

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
design element - motifs - moulding and piping
symbol - cross - Greek - processional cross
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view of church interior - looking east
view of stoup - upper view
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."
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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-