Quimperle No. 2 / Quimperlé / Kemperle

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: a row of floral motifs framed under a moulding

LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - crocketed arches

Scene Description: all round the base

LID01: design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - crocketed arches

Scene Description: it is not a lid or coer, but a canopy built into the same column of which the font is part

INFORMATION

FontID: 08056QUI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located 67 km ESE of Quimper
Font Location in Church: In the N porch
Date: ca. 1420-1430?
Century and Period: 15th century (early), Late Medieval
Described and illustrated in Dourad (2002: 60) as a holy-water stoup located at the north entrance; the hexagonal object is of the type built around and as part of the partition column of the the entrance, one in which the descending pillar appears to rest in the centre of the basin; unlike many such, however, this one has a canopy right above it -also part of the column. Both the stoup and the canopy are ornamented with Gothic crocketed arches with equally adorned pinacles [NB: at least one of the internal sides of the basin appears to have had its ornamentation chiseled off, or never finished]. Douard (ibid.) informes that this part of the church was done between 1420 and 1430.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

Douard, Christel, Quimperlé et son canton, Bretagne, Rennes: L'Inventaire, éditions Apogée, 2002