Henvic

INFORMATION

FontID: 04695HEN
Church/Chapel: Ancienne église Saint-Maudez-et-Sainte-Juvette
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Taulé, arrondissement de Morlaix
Font Location in Church: In the south porch, wall-mounted
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Finistère (1998) as a very eroded 15th-century white Ploujean granit stoup; it is wall-mounted on the wall of the south porch and may have been from a previous church. [NB: there is a large font-like object in this village, in the ruins of the seigneurial mansion od de Lezireur/Lezillur; this granit object, dated to the 16th century and now quite eroded, still shows two coat-of-arms. It is probably a garden ornament.)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (white) (Ploujean granite)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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