Quimper No. 1 / Kemper
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05530QUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font?
Church / Chapel Name: Église [ancienne prieurale] Notre-Dame-de-Locmaria de Quimper
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Notre-Dame-de-Locmaria, originally a monastery, it became a parish church in 1857
Church Address: Pl. Denis Berardier, 29000 Quimper, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 90 66 74
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Locmaria is a 'quartier' of Quimper located on the left bank of the Odet, off the D34.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon
Font Notes:
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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]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 417037 5315603
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.988349, -4.111923
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 59′ 18.05″ N, 4° 6′ 42.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: double-font?
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 66
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 73 and fn8
- Swann, E., "Fonts of Unusual Shape, with Appendages", 1887, Proceedings of the Historical Society, 1887, pp. 67-82; p. 72