Carantec

INFORMATION

FontID: 04694CAR
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Carantec
Church Patron Saints: St. Carantoc [aka Carannog, Caranog, Carantoc, Carentoc, Caradec, Cradocus, Cradokus, Crannog]
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Taulé, arrondissement de Morlaix
Font Location in Church: Near the choir
Century and Period: 17th century,
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a 17th-century baptismal font; plain octagonal basin on an octagonal base, also plain. The secondary basin is added, not part of the original design, and rests on its own foot.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat plain modern lid

REFERENCES

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