Quemeneven / Quéménéven

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04264QUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: 1529
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century (?)
Church / Chapel Name: Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kergoat à Quéménéven
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090319]: "1530 ; 1675 ; 1764"
Church Address: 1 Route de Châteaulin, 29180 Quéménéven, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the CDC du Basin de Chateaulin, near Chateaulin, about 20 km N of Quimper
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 1530 church here)
Font Notes:
A listed object in this church is described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a bronze stoup dated 1529 [inscription?]. The object is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM29002997]: "Seau à eau bénite [...] Bronze. Anse en fer [...] 2e quart 16e siècle [...] Moulure ; Vierge à l'enfant : en médaillon [...] inscription En lettres gothiques, tout autour de la lèvre : LORANS KERIVEL FABRIQUE [...] T [...] MRIA KQOET LAN MIL VC XXIX FET CE." This pail is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W00554]. [NB: it is not a holy-water stoup proper but the small pail or bucket used to carry holy water for aspersion around the church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 412968 5329670
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.114344, -4.169312
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 6′ 51.64″ N, 4° 10′ 9.52″ W

REFERENCES

  • Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV A 116
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.