Gouesnach / Gouesnac'h

INFORMATION

FontID: 04581GOU
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Fouesnant, arrondissement de Quimper
Font Location in Church: By the entrance to the church
Century and Period: Gallo-Roman
Cognate Fonts: Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) gives the stoup at Penhars as cognate
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a granit holy-water stoup, formerly a Gallo-Roman altar for incense burning; it has a square upper volume mounted on a square pedestal; the only ornamentation are several mouldings at top and bottom. [NB: the baptismal font in this church, a plain double-font dated probably to the 17th or 18th century, is not included in the Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998