Poullaouen
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04515POU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Font Location in Church: In the baptismal chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090316]
Church Address: Pl. Pen Vered, 29246 Poullaouen, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D769, 10 km SW of Carhaix-Plouguer, in the canton de Carhaix-Plouguer, arrondissement de Châteaulin
Font Notes:
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Described in the Inventaire général... (1969) as a granite double-font probably from the 16th century; the main basin is octagonal; the secundary basin is hexagonal and smaller, both mounted. There is a granite holy-water-stoup, probably of a later date, in the north porch of the church [not listed in the Index]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 452353 5354248
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.339614, -3.642971
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 20′ 22.61″ N, 3° 38′ 34.7″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) octagonal 2) hexagonal
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, p. 61