Saint-Quijean / Saint-Quijeau

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04516QUI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Chapelle de Notre-Dame-du-Paradis de Saint-Quijeau (Poulaouen)
Font Location in Church: In the nave, S wall, to the left of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: chapel listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA29003430]: "Chapelle mentionnée en 1572 ; reconstruction entre 1855 et 1860 ; restaurée en 2004."
Church Address: 29246 Poullaouen, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: The church is located between Saint-Quijean and Lescom; Saint-Quijean is a hamlet located off the D769, 3-4 km NW of Poullaouen, in the canton de Carhaix-Plouguer, arrondissement de Châteaulin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Font Notes:
Described in the Inventaire général... (1969) as a stone, wall-mounted holy-water stoup probably from the 17th century; ornamented with low-relief laurel leaves. Saint-Quijean appears in André Dufief's Les cisterciens en Bretagne XIIe-XIIIe siècles (Université Rennes 2. 1978 thesis) [https://books.openedition.org/pur/11511?lang=en] [accessed 30 April 2025], in a " Liste des prieurés et des églises de Bretagne dépendant d’abbayes bretonnes et étrangères dans la première moitié du xiie siècle", in a group of Églises et chapelles, diocèse de Quimper as "Saint-Quijean, (fin xie siècle), com. et cant. Corhaix, arr. Châteaulin, Finistère."

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.352928, -3.671393
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 21′ 10.54″ N, 3° 40′ 17.02″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one

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. 64