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design element - motifs - groove

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: around the upper side of the smaller basin -- [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - patterns - torsade

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symbol - shield - blank - 4?

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the interior of the large basin showing the lead (?) lining; the large bracket on the right side may be a handle to remove/lift the lining [cf. FontNotes]

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view of basin - interior - drain

Scene Description: the interior of the smaller basin showing the drain [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church interior - altar

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view of church interior - east side - window

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking southwest

Scene Description: the font canopy

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view of font

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04692ROS

Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de Croas-Batz

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 2 Rue Amiral Réveillère, 29680 Roscoff, France

Country Name: France

Location: Finistère, Bretagne

Directions to Site: Located off the D769, in the canton of, and about 6-7 km N of Saint-Pol-de-Léon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Date: 1649?

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font and church

Church Notes: For information on the building of the canopy in 1690 see http://www.roscoff-quotidien.eu/histoire-bulletin-paroissial-268.htm [accessed 12 September 2009]

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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a 17th-century baptismal font. The hexagonal baldaquin over the font is dated 1701 in the source (Ibid.), but 1690 in the local church guide [cf. infra and ChurchNotes]. Not known whether the date, 1649, is inscribed on the font. The SPREV-fédération pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Religieux [www.sprev.org] dates this font to the 16th century [cf. infra]. The local printed church guide notes [NB: in English in the original]: "There are two 16th c. granite fonts. The larger one contains holy water, and the smaller one, used for the actual baptism, contains an outlet for holy water. Over these fonts is a wooden canopy supported by eight wooden columns painted to simulate marble, with winged cherubims (1690)." The font is of the double-basin design with separate supports; the support of the large basin is broad, round and moulded; the support of the smaller basin [the one with the drain] is round, with a torsade pattern on the upper half and moulded on the lower part; the granite of the two basins is different, the larger one being of a darker hue and coarser hue; the side of the larger basin has plain shields on some of its sides [four?], and a horizontal groove on the other sides; it retains two large metal staples for the security of the cover; the wooden cover itself is octagonal and flat, and has a small trap door to provide access to the inner well. There is an inscription in Gothic lettering on the large plinth or platform on which the canopy and the fonts stand [NB: we have no transcription of the text at present]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 21 September 2023) notes: "Dans l'église Notre-Dame de Croaz-Batz à Roscoff (29), les fonts baptismaux se situent au niveau du bas-côté droit de l'édifice, à l'opposé du chœur. Ce monument qui date de 1690, est l'œuvre des maîtres sculpteurs Guillaume Level et Alain Castel. La cuve octogonale est posée sur une colonne cylindrique moulurée. Cette cuve est surmontée d'un baldaquin achevé en 1701. Ce dernier est soutenu par huit colonnes galbées en bois, reposant sur des bases rectangulaires, surmonté d'une coupole sommée d'un ange. Au pendentif de l'intérieur on voit deux têtes d'ange et une colombe qui plane. Le dôme est couronné par un ange tenant un bouclier. Beaucoup de fonts baptismaux ont huit côtés pour rappeler la nouvelle création, en effet, l'octogone est intermédiaire entre le rond naturel et le carré culturel. Référence : Andrew Paul Sandford et Yves-Pascal Castel, Patrimoine sacré en Bretagne, Spézet, Coop Breizh, 2006".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.726381, -3.984867

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 43′ 34.97″ N, 3° 59′ 5.52″ W

UTM: 30U 427571 5397507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) -- double-basin font

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal (both basins)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (both basins)

Drainage Notes: the larger basin is lined with lead (?); the lining does not have a drain -- the smaller basin is not lined and has a drain

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: the octagonal wooden cover [cf. FontNotes] belongs to the large basin; there appears to be no cover for the smaller basin

REFERENCES

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