Roche-Maurice, La No. 3 / Ar Roc'h-Morvan

INFORMATION

FontID: 04687ROC
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale St-Yves de la Roche Maurice
Church Patron Saints: St. Yves
Church Location: rue des Ecoles, La Roche-Maurice, 29800 Plouédern, France
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: La Roche Maurice is located off the D29, just S of Plouédern village centre, about 17 km NW of Brest, 5 km NE of Landernau. Le Pont-Chirst is really a hamlet of La Roche-Maurice
Font Location in Church: Inside the south door
Date: 1550
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a mid 16th-century holy-water stoup wall-mounted just inside the south door of the church; it is polygonal with vertical sides; the front side has a scroll on which appear, in Gothic lettering, "A : MEN". The source [cf. supra] explains that the text actually refers to the sculptor, one of the local Le Men, who fleurished in the area around the middle of the 16th century [the same source shows a "sablière" the work of Fiacre Le Men who depicts himself on it with a mallet in his hand. (Ibid., v. 2, p. 1000)]. The entry for this church in PORMENAZ site [http://pormenaz.free.fr/La-roche-maurice.php], however, notes: "La cuve des anciens fonds baptismaux date du XVIIème siècle : elle sert aujourd'hui de bénitier sous le clocher."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.487764, -4.16326
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 29′ 15.95″ N, 4° 9′ 47.74″ W
UTM: 30U 414048 5371169

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, [kersantite?]
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: polygonal (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: polygonal
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French
Inscription Notes: Actually the name of the sculptor
Inscription Location: in a scroll, on the front side
Inscription Text: "A : MEN"
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998, v. 2, p. 1000)

REFERENCES

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