Ploudiry No. 2

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LID01: angel - holding scroll

Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04686PLO
Church/Chapel: Chapelle-ossuaire Saint-Joseph
Church Patron Saints: St. Joseph
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Ploudiry, arrondissement de Brest
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted on the SW buttress
Date: 1635
Century and Period: 17th century,
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a 17th-century holy-water stoup wall-mounted on a south-west buttress of the ossuary; the basin is hemispheric and ornamented with braid motif at top and ribbed patern on the sides and underbowl. The back-drop -really the wall above it- has an angel holding a scroll with an inscription [cf. Inscription] and a "cartouche" with the date 1635. The same source [cf. supra] gives the material as "pierre de Logonna".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [pierre de Logonna]
Font Shape: hemispheric (wall mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French
Inscription Notes: As transcribed in the source
Inscription Location: On the scroll held by the angel above the basin
Inscription Text: "BONES : GENS : QUI : PAR : ICY : PASSEZ :/ PRIEZ DIEU POUR LES TRESPASSEZ"
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998, v. 2, p. 997)

REFERENCES

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