Saint-Hernin / St-Hernin

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04517HER
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Hernin de Saint-Hernin
Font Location in Church: In the nave, S wall, to the right of the door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hernin [aka Hern]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref,: PA00090418]: "L'église en forme de tau, édifice du 16e siècle partiellement remanié au 17e"
Church Address: Pl. du 19 Mars 1962, 29270 Saint-Hernin, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D82, 10 km SW of Carhaix-Plouguer, in the canton de Carhaix-Plouguer, arrondissement de Châteaulin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in the Inventaire général... (1969) as a granite, wall-mounted holy-water stoup probably from the 17th or 18th century; it appears quadrangular and bears an inscription [cf. Inscription] which gives its maker's name as Le Goff. The front side of the basin has a motif under the inscription: oblong and with a hole in the centre (?)

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 452862 5340719
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.217948, -3.634592
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 13′ 4.61″ N, 3° 38′ 4.53″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: quadrangular (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French
Inscription Location: on two sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "MOALIC : ET : LOISE / LE GOFF : LA : FAITE"
Inscription Source: Inventaire général... (1969)

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. 69 and pl. 461 on p. 148