Quimper No. 1 / Kemper

INFORMATION

FontID: 05530QUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Locmaria
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Locmaria is a 'quartier' of Quimper located on the left bank of the Odet.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font?
Church Notes: Notre-Dame-de-Locmaria, originally a monastery, it became a parish church in 1857
Font Notes:
Listed in Swann (1887) as a baptismal font "with appendage". Listed in Bond (1908) [after Enlart?] as a baptismal font with "little cup [...] on one side of the bowl of the font, like a kangaroo's pouch". The Patrimoine Breton web site [www.bagadoo.tm.fr] lists a baptismal font [no date or description given] and a 16th-century holy-water stoup. [cf. Index entry for Quimper No. 2 for the holy-water stoup in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: double-font?

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Swann, E., "Fonts of Unusual Shape, with Appendages", 1887, Proceedings of the Historical Society, 1887, pp. 67-82; p. 72