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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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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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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Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteaux déposés. Eglise. Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan, France."

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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."

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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
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
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