Saint-Servais

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04677SER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1678?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Servais de Saint-Servais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090438]: "Abside datée de 1688"
Church Address: 29400 Saint-Servais, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D32, N of the N12, about 5 km W of Lindivisiau
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Font Notes:
Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) informs that the first baptism in this church took place on Sunday January 23, 1678, after a long-drawn contest with its mother-parish, the church of Plounéventer nearby. The font is of a type common in this area of Bretagne (pedestal font with a basin ornamented with foliage, etc.) and, as usual, the more remarkable element is the baldaquin over it. The granite basin has a round well that is lined with lead; in addittion there is a lead (?) container inside the font, cylidrical and with a cover that has a hole in it, and handles on the sides [NB: a few other containers of this type are occassionally found in some churches in Brittany]. Font and baldaquin are listed in Palissy [ref.: PM29001696]: "Fonts baptismaux ; baldaquin des fonts baptismaux [...] Bois ; granite [...] 1678 et XVIIe siècle [...] H = 460 (baldaquin et dôme) [...] Clôture hexagonale à panneaux sculptés aux angles. Six colonnes cannelées portant un baldaquin à dôme galbé. Sur la corniche, des niches garnies de statuettes." The font is the type where the auxiliary basin does not have a base, but is pappended to the side of the main basin. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W04472, AP29W04473, AP29W04474]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 414676 5373798
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.5115, -4.1553
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 30′ 41.4″ N, 4° 9′ 19.08″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal wooden lid of modern date

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998, vol. 1, p. 666
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.