Locmariaquer / Locus Matrice de Ker / Lokmaria-Kaer
Results: 17 records
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_346.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_345.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_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_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_342.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_341.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_340.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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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 in context
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 - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2019 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04255LOC
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Another stoup with similar ornamentation in Melrand, also in Morbihan
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame de Locmariaquer [aka Notre-Dame-de-Kerdro]
Font Location in Church: wall-mounted inside the church, by the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
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."
Church Address: rue Clemenceau / 2 place du Général de Gaulle, 56740 Locmariaquer, France
Site Location: Morbihan, Bretagne, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg for his photographs of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 504212 5268407
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.569069, -2.944003
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 34′ 8.65″ N, 2° 56′ 38.41″ W
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-, IV A 66