Bangor / Bangor in Belle-Ile-en-Mer

INFORMATION

FontID: 04519BAN

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Country Name: France

Location: Morbihan, Bretagne

Directions to Site: In the Belle-Ile-en-Mer, in the centre-south part of the island

Font Location in Church: Centre aisle

Century and Period: 16th century

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Inventaire général... (1978) as a former baptismal font now used as holy-water stoup; the octagonal basin is reported in very poor state of repair. [NB: the other stoup, on the west wall is dated 1808, as is the baptismal font itself which makes a pair with the late stoup - neither of them is listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Basin Total Height: 40 cm

Notes on Measurements: Inventaire général... (1978)

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale de Bretagne, Morbihan: canton Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1978