Carhaix-Plouguer
INFORMATION
FontID: 04512CAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre-de-Plouguer
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km N of the canal Nantes-Brest, in the canton de Carhaix-Plouguer, arrondissement de, and 47 km E of, Châteaulin
Font Location in Church: In the baptismal chapel
Century and Period: 16th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Font Notes:
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Described in the Inventaire général... (1969) as a stone baptismal font, probably of the 16th century; the main basin is hexagonal and mounted; the secundary basi is of the same type but smaller.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted) (double-font)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal (both basins)
REFERENCES
Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale de Bretagne, Finistère: canton Carhaix-Plouguer (2 vols.), Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1969