Pleurtuit

Noted and illustrated in Autissier (2005) as a baptismal font that 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.