Concarneau No. 1
Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2005
Image and Permission received (email of 25 July 2005)
Results: 2 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph from Montserrat Estela
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (email of 25 July 2005)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph from Montserrat Estela
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (email of 25 July 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 04576CON
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Guénolé [orig. from the priory church of Saint-Coeur-de-Marie]
Church Patron Saints: St. Winwaloe [aka Guénolé de Landévennec, Grimolay, Guignolet, Gwenole, Guingalan, Guingalois, Guinglin, Guingualoeus, Guingaloué, Gwenole, Gwennole, Uuingualoeus, Walloy, Winnoc, Winwallus, Winwaloeus]
Church Location: 12A rue du Général Morvan, 29900 Concarneau, France
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Concarneau, arrondissement de Quimper, on the E side of the Baie de la Forêt
Font Location in Church: In the church, now used as side table
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: earlier church dedicated to the Saint-Cœur de Marie built 1912-1929; demolished 1994-1995; present church consecrated 1996
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as the only remnant from the old priory church of the Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, destroyed during the Revolution. It is a basin of a baptismal font, quadrangular at the upper rim, with two vertical sides and two roundin towards the bottom; the vertical sides are decorated with a blind arcade of trefoil arches. This old basin is covered with a glass plate and is mounted on a modern base, now being used as a side table. [NB: both Saint-Cœur and Saint-Guénolé are modern churches; we found no record of an earlier church in Concarneau, but e very early church, 10th-11thC church is said to have existed in Beuzec [cf. Index entry for Concaenau No. 2]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
47.8725,
-3.913889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
47° 52′ 21″ N,
3° 54′ 50″ W
UTM: 30T 431660 5302534
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998