Saint-Servais

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all over the basin, a/p illustration in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04677SER
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Servais
Church Patron Saints: St. Servatius of Tongeren [aka Sarbatius, Servais, Servatius of Maastricht]
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Lindivisiau, arrondissement de Morlaix
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1678?
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance
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]

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 wooden lid of modern date

REFERENCES

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