Plouedern / Plouédern

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04672PLO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid)

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font -- by Master Roland Doré

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Edern de Plouédern

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edern [9thC monk]

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090214]: "Eglise à trois nefs, terminée par un chevet plat à triple pignon. Les arcades en tiers points à l'intérieur semblent remonter au début du 16e siècle. Les murs nord et sud ont été refaits au 17e siècle (dates de 1609 au nord, et 1626 au sud). A l'intérieur, un baldaquin en bois peint abrite les fonts baptismaux. Le clocher, sur le pignon occidental, date du 18e siècle."

Church Address: 13 Route du Pont, 29800 Plouédern, France

Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D29-N12 crossroads, 4-5 km N of Landerneau, 18-20 km ENE of Brest

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a mid 17th-century double baptismal font in granite; The main basin is hemispheric and raised on a cylindrical pedestal; the basin has an inscription under the rim [cf. Inscription] and large ribbed pattern on the underbowl. The pedestal of the base has fluted pattern and there are mouldings at its top and bottom. The second basin and base are a miniture replica of the main ones, and are united to them at the top and via a plain circular lower base or plinth on which both volumes stand. The font and its baldaquin are mentioned in the Mérimée [ref.: PA00090214] entry for this church: "A l'intérieur, un baldaquin en bois peint abrite les fonts baptismaux". The baldaquin is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM29000706]: "Baldaquin des fonts baptismaux [...] Bois [...] 17e siècle [...] Les Apôtres sont représentés tous autour du baldaquin, et au sommet figure saint Edern assis sur un cerf." The same entry adds that it was destroyed in a fire: "Oeuvre détruite dans un incendie ayant touché l'église." The baldaquin and the font inside are illustrated in Mémoire [ref: AP29W03194, AP58V01742].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 407938 5370833

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.483878, -4.245857

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 29′ 1.96″ N, 4° 14′ 45.08″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: double-font, hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round (both)

Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, round (both)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: right under the rim

Inscription Text: Roland Doré 1641

Inscription Notes: The exact transcription is not available

Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998, v. 1, p. 617)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: font with baldaquin

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