Pleurtuit No. 1 / Pleurestud

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Results: 6 records

human figure - head - 4

[cf. Font notes for details]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Autissier (2005)
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design element - motifs - sawtooth

only a little of it remains on the damaged upper basin side
Scene Description: only a little of it remains on the damaged upper basin side
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Autissier (2005)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

on the sides, between the heads
Scene Description: on the sides, between the heads
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Autissier (2005)
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Autissier (2005)
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symbol - cross - pattée - mounted cross

several of them
Scene Description: several of them
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Autissier (2005)
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view of basin - side

Font image
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Autissier (2005)
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11568PLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1181?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Pleurtuit
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA35003961]: "Église commencée en 1873, [date portée à la base d'un contrefort au chevet de l'église] sur les plans d'Arthur Regnault, qui dessine également une partie du mobilier. Plusieurs éléments du 12e siècle et du 14e siècle provenant de l'ancienne église ont été réemployés"
Church Address: Rue de l'Abbé Jean Pottier, 35730 Pleurtuit, France -- Tel.: +33 9 81 94 25 34
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D114, S of the D168, 4 km S of Dinard
Font Notes:
Noted and illustrated in Autissier (2005) as a baptismal font which shares decorative styles that appear in the capitals reused from the 12th-century original church. The font is damaged at the upper rim but there is still enough of it left to show a band of saw-tooth along it, between four grotesque masks located at the angles (one is human and has a long curled tongue sticking out or is eating a curled tendril; two other human figures are set head-to-toe or, Autissier (ibid.) suggests, perhaps a basilisk); between the heads the sides have a blind arcade of round arches; the tapering lower part of the basin is decorated with another arcade of round arcxhes (some irregular, as if the artisan had run out of space) many of which have pattée croses mounted on little bases. Autissier (ibid.) states that the piece was originally conceived as a font [i.e., it is not a modified capital] and adds that it belongs to a series of such objects in the same region: Bécherel, Corseul, Dinan, Erquy, Perros-Guirec and Saint-Malo.
Two other medieval baptismal fonts located disused in the rectory garden of Pleurtuit are listed in Palissy [ref.: PM35000394]: "2 fonts baptismaux [...] 13e siècle ; 14e siècle [...] La cuve du 14e siècle est octogonale [...] H = 60 ; d = 80 (Dimensions de la cuve du 13e siècle) ; Dimensions de la cuve du 14e siècle : h = 45, l = 30". The two disused fonts are illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP35W00382, AP35W00383].
[NB: additionally this church has installed a new immersion font, a raised croos-shaped tank to be used for all ages, included adults, recently; see report https://paroissedinardpleurtuit.fr/eglises-patrimoine/fonts-baptismaux-bapteme-immersion/ [accessed 22 June, 2025]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 571702 5383416
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.599714, -2.027461
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 35′ 58.97″ N, 2° 1′ 38.86″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square [to round at the bottom]

REFERENCES

  • Autissier, Anne, La sculpture romane en Bretagne, XIe-XIIe siècles, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005, p. 350-351 and fig. 339
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.