Saint-Vougay No. 1 / St-Vougay
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BD101: inscription
![date [1666?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090919047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: date [1666?]
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BD101: design element - motifs - flat moulding
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BD103: design element - patterns - ribbed
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LB01: design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: on both bases
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the support stone linking both basins
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: the wooden frame is a later addition, as are probably the cement (?) filling and the small lead basin
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the drain hole
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view of font and stoup in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking south: immediately to the left/west of the door, the large stoup -- in the small recess just left/west of it, the baptismal font behind a low black railing
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view of church interior - window - east window
Scene Description: behind the altar
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04688VOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1666?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Vougay de Saint-Vougay
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a lateral chapel of the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Vouga [aka Bouga, Nonna, Nouga, Vezo, Vio, Vougay -- 6thC Irish saint]]
Church Notes: 16thC church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00005512]: "Eglise 16e siècle ; agrandie vers 1628 ; clocher 17e siècle ; très remaniée en 1834 ; entrée de l'enclos porte la date 1771 ; croix monumentale en 1866 portant l'inscription : MISSION A ST VOUGAY 1866 Y M POULIQUEN RECTEUR J GUENNEGAN MAIRE P CONSEIL TRESORIER"
Church Address: 29440 Saint-Vougay, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D30, 3 km W of Plouzévédé, 35 km NE of Brest
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a 17th century double-font; it consists of a main font with a hemispheric basin ornamented with mouldings and rib pattern; the side of the basin that is over the secondary basin has an inscription with the date [1666?] of the font; the cylindrical base is a fluted column; the secondary basin is shorter and much smaller, also round, and its slender base has a moulded shape and a conical column with fluted pattern; the small basin appears cemented to the underbowl of the main one; the 'link' piece that supports both basins is shared by both basins; the stems of the base are independent. Dome metal lid, probably modern.
Baptismal font and cover are illustrated in a 18 July 2021 photograph by Romainbehar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Vougay_-_Église_Saint-Vougay_-_Fonts_baptismaux.jpeg] [accessed 5 May 2025]. [cf. Index entry for Saint-Vougay No. 2 for a holy-water stoup in this church]
Baptismal font and cover are illustrated in a 18 July 2021 photograph by Romainbehar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Vougay_-_Église_Saint-Vougay_-_Fonts_baptismaux.jpeg] [accessed 5 May 2025]. [cf. Index entry for Saint-Vougay No. 2 for a holy-water stoup in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of building and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 416081 5382914
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.59368, -4.13812
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 35′ 37.25″ N, 4° 8′ 17.23″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: double-font, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, round (both)
Drainage System: centre hole in basin (secondaty basin)
Drainage Notes: the main basin appears not to have a drain, but it is partly filled with cement (?) and has a lead container in it
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the side of the large basin that faces the secondary basin
Inscription Text: [1666?]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: Dome lid with small round/oval finial
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes du Finistère (2 vols.), Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1998, vol. 2, p. 1085