Spezet / Spézet

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04518SPE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre
Font Location in Church: In the baptismal chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00005054]: "Ossuaire du 16e siècle. L'église est construite de 1709 à 1719. Une inscription rappelle la consécration en 1719. La chapelle Saint-Antoine construite en 1561 dans l'enclos est détruite en 1935."
Church Address: Straed ar Presbital, 29540 Spézet, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D117/D82, 16 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 double-font; the main volume consists of an octagonal basin raised which is very wide at the top but narrows considerably at the chamfer; it is raised on an octagonal pedestal; a second, much smaller but similar, secundary basin and base are attached. The baptismal "combo" is completed by a 17th-century "panneau d'aplique" or backdrop in polychrome wood which contains a Baptism of Christ scene.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 446771 5337995
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.192956, -3.716246
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 11′ 34.64″ N, 3° 42′ 58.49″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, octagonal (both)
Drainage Notes: The main basin appears lined with metal

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. 76 and pl. 519 on p. 164