Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys No. 3 / Lokentaz / Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuis
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteau déposé servant de bénitier dans l'église paroissiale de Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Morbihan, France)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 January 2022 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intérieur_de_l'église_abbatiale_de_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_(56)_-_21.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2022
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Gildas. Intérieur : chapiteau-bénitier"
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Image Source: digital image of a 1914 B&W negative [54L00919] by Jules Tillet, in Mémoire [ref.: AP54L00919] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP54L00919] [accessed 21 September 2022]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Presses Universitaires de France, 2005
Image Source: photograph in Autissier (2005)
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteau déposé servant de bénitier dans l'église paroissiale de Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Morbihan, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thérèse Gaigé, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 January 2022 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intérieur_de_l'église_abbatiale_de_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_(56)_-_21.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2022
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteaux déposés. Eglise. Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1928 B&W negative [MH0036490] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00036490] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_-_Chapiteaux_déposés_-_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00036490.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2022]
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteaux déposés. Eglise. Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1928 B&W negative [MH0036487] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00036487] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_-_Chapiteaux_déposés_-_Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00036487.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11551RHU
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale de St-Gildas-de-Rhuys
Church Patron Saints: St. Gildas [aka Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw, Gildas Sapiens, Gweltaz]
Church Location: 7125 Rue Laennec, 56730 Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, France
Country Name: France
Location: Morbihan, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located off the D198, in the SW corner of the Presqu'île de Rhuys, the wedge of land which makes the outer arm of the Golfe du Morbihan. St-Gildas... is accessible via the D780 which circles the Golfe de Morbihan from Vannes (about 30 kms).
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N arm of the transept
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Church Notes: The abbey was founded by the English abbot Gildas and later destroyed by Vikings; the theologian Abelard arrived here in the 12th cent. to force a rule on the unruly monks of St-Gildas but ended up running for his life unable to reform the dissolute community there
Font Notes:
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Both Enlart (1902) and the Phaidon guide to France (1985) identify the two Romanesque capitals from the abbey church which were later put to use as holy-water stoup. Described and illustrated in Autissier (2005), who suggests somewhat reluctantly a date in the early 12th century. This one has a similar band of foliage around the bottom as the other [cf. Index entry for St-Gildas... No. 2], but the rest of the basin is decorated with purely vegetal motifs (large leaves, volutes, etc.), without the animal elements of the other one. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP54L00919]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.5008, -2.8367
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 30′ 2.88″ N, 2° 50′ 12.12″ W
UTM: 30T 512298 5260832
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square-to-round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round
REFERENCES
Autissier, Anne, La sculpture romane en Bretagne, XIe-XIIe siècles, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985