Henvic

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04695HEN
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne église paroissiale Saint-Maudez-et-Sainte-Juvette
Font Location in Church: In the S porch, wall-mounted
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maudez [aka Modez] & St. Juvette [aka Hulven]
Church Notes: 15thC church; re-built ca. 1900 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00090003]: "16e siècle ; 17e siècle"
Church Address: 29670 Henvic, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D58, 5 km NW of Taulé, 11-12 km NW of Morlaix
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Font Notes:
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 of 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.)

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 431635 5387078
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.633026, -3.927886
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 37′ 58.9″ N, 3° 55′ 40.39″ W

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, vol. 2, p. 1543