Quimper No. 3 / Kemper

Results: 23 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

information

Scene Description: museum plaque detailing the objects displayed in the courtyard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

information

Scene Description: museum label

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Autissier (2005)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Autissier (2005)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: granit 15thC? calvary ptobably from Gouesnac'h, Finistère [Museum ref.: R. 983.106]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

fragment of a 15thC granit statue identified as the legendary king Gradlon or Jean V, formerly in the cathedral of Quimper [Museum ref.: R.983.124]

Scene Description: fragment of a 15thC granit statue identified as the legendary king Gradlon or Jean V, formerly in the cathedral of Quimper [Museum ref.: R.983.124]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: fragment of a 15thC granit statue identified as the legendary king Gradlon or Jean V, formerly in the cathedral of Quimper [Museum ref.: R.983.124]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: fragment of a 15thC granit statue identified as the legendary king Gradlon or Jean V, formerly in the cathedral of Quimper [Museum ref.: R.983.124]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: fragment of a 15thC granit statue identified as the legendary king Gradlon or Jean V, formerly in the cathedral of Quimper [Museum ref.: R.983.124]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of context

Scene Description: view of the museum courtyard -- Source caption: "L'ancien évêché de Quimper abritant le musée départemental breton."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2011 by Thesupermat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quimper_-_Ancien_évêché_-_Musée_départemental_Breton_-_001.jpg] [accessed 7 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of context

Scene Description: view of the museum from the Odet river side -- Source caption: "L'ancien évêché de Quimper abritant le musée départemental breton."

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of stoup

Scene Description: one side carved, all other sides blank

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: showing the exit of the drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of stoup - upper view

Scene Description: the drain hole is visible on the side of the inner basin; it exits on the side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

view of stoup in context

Scene Description: the presumed stoup in the courtyard of the Musée départemental breton [former Palais des Évêques de Cornouaille] [Inv. no. 879.1.1]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 11577QUI

Object Type: Stoup?

Museum and Inventory Number: Musée départemental breton [1 rue du Roi Gradlon, 29000 Quimper, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 95 21 60]

Church/Chapel: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: museum address: 1 rue du Roi Gradlon, 29000 Quimper, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 95 21 60

Country Name: France

Location: Finistère, Bretagne

Directions to Site: The museum is located in the former Palais des Évêques de Cornouaille, near the cathedral of Quimper

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon

Historical Region: Cornouialle

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Autissier (2005): a holy-water stoup made of an original granite capital said to be from the old cathedral of Saint-Corentin, in Quimper, that was totally rebuilt in the 13th century; Autissier (ibid.) informs that the object was found in 1879 built into a façade of a house near the cathedral, and suggests a date towards the last quarter of the 11th century; the object is roughly square, with a round astragal in the shape of rope moulding; the surface of the sides is covered in a pattern of foliage and tendrils. [NB: a presentation at a colloquium held in Lorient in April 2017 [attended by BSI] questioned the assumed existence of an earlier cathedral in Quimper; Yves Gallet, the presenter, also questioned the definition of this stone as 'capital ', seeing that only one side is carved and it does not appear to fit the function -- our own viewing of the object, now located in the open square by the museum entrance, noted that the block has been hollowed at the top and that a side drain hole goes right through the stone to a side, which suggests its use not as a stoup but, perhaps, a lavabo. BSI also suggests that the 11th-century dating usually assigned to it may be too early].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.995097, -4.10253

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 59′ 42.35″ N, 4° 6′ 9.11″ W

UTM: 30T 417773 5316394

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: [irregular]

Drainage Notes: through drain [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Autissier, Anne, La sculpture romane en Bretagne, XIe-XIIe siècles, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005