Laval No. 1
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several on the baluster-type base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flohic, 2002
Image Source: Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 589)
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design element - motifs - scotia
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Image Source: Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 589)
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design element - motifs - torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flohic, 2002
Image Source: Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 589)
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all around the basin side and underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flohic, 2002
Image Source: Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 589)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gwendal, 2012
Image Source: degital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Gwendal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Vénérand_de_Laval_2.JPG] [accessed 17 February 2017]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Flohic, 2002
Image Source: Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 589)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08769LAV
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Vénérand
Church Location: Rue du Pont de Mayenne, 53000 Laval, France -- Tel.: +33 2 43 53 05 16
Country Name: France
Location: Mayenne, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located at the D57-D900 crossroads, 80 km E of Rennes, about the same distance W of Le Mans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Laval
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1699
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Julien Lorier and Jacques Besron
Cognate Fonts: Another such in the same temple
Church Notes: the original priory Chapelle Saint-Melaine de Laval first mentioned in the 7thC; later [11thC?] a chapel of ease to the parish church at Argentré, and finally a parish church in its own right; replaced by the church dedicated to Saint-Vénérand in 1485 -- listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109531]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM53001034]: "Bénitiers en marbre de Montroux (Argentré) [...] 4e quart 17e siècle [...] Besson Jacques (sculpteur); Lorier Julien (sculpteur)". Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2002, v. 2: 589): one of two identical holy-water stoups dated to 1699, the work of local "lavallois" sculptors Julien Lorier and Jacques Besron. The shallow basins have a roughly hemispherical shape and are ornamented with a torus-scotia at the upper side, and with high-relief ribbed pattern on the sides and underbowl; the base is a square pedestal of the baluster type. [cf. Index entry for Laval No. 2 for the other stoup in this church] [Flohic ref. no. 53170327]. [NB: we have no information on the font here or whether or not there was a font at the former parish church dedicated to Saint-Melaine]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.0686, -0.76639
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 4′ 6.96″ N, 0° 45′ 59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (marbre jaspé de Montreux)
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Le patrimoine des communes de la Mayenne (2 vols.), Paris: FLOHIC, 2002