Saint-Etienne-en-Cogles / Sant-Stefan-Gougleiz / St-Etienne-en-Coglès / St. Eteinne en Coglais
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Scene Description: the 18th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juillard Patrick, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in Le Canton de Saint-Brice-en-Coglès [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jpcesson/index/Canton%20de%20Saint-Brice-en-Cogl%E8s.htm] [accessed 16 February 2009]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juillard Patrick, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in Le Canton de Saint-Brice-en-Coglès [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jpcesson/index/Canton%20de%20Saint-Brice-en-Cogl%E8s.htm] [accessed 16 February 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14261COG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1767
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale St-Etienne de Saint-Etienne-en-Cogles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: 11thC church demolished in 1778
Church Address: 7 Pl. de l'Église, 35460 Maen Roch, France
Site Location: Ille-et-Vilaine / Il-ha-Gwilen, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D103, 10 km NW of Fougères
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo
Additional Comments: replacement font / disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here and anothe one with heraldic motifs on it [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font consists of an oval basin raised on a baluster-type pedestal base, all in light-brown marble; dates from 1767. The flat wooden cover with ball-topped finial/handle is probably from the same date. The entry for the prsent 19th-century church in Mérimée [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA35048969] [accessed 4 July 2025] mentions the medieval church it replaced: "La première église est construite au 11e siècle. Cette église romane comprenait une nef, une abside et une tour en pierre à l'entrée de l'abside : un transept y avait été ajouté en 1615, et l'abside avait été démolie en 1778. Cette église primitive, remaniée en 1615, est restaurée en 1833 puis démolie. Dédiée à saint Etienne, martyr, fêté le 3 août, cette église était au commencement du 17e siècle un remarquable spécimen de l'architecture romane." It further makes reference to a baptismal font in that church -obviously not the original one of the 11th century: "contre les fonts baptismaux étaient sculptés en pierre quatre écussons portant les armes de Saint-Etienne, de Lorgeril et de Parthenay"; that description does not match the present font which is also mentioned in the Mérimée entry: "Les fonts baptismaux datent de 1767".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 624092 5362585
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.4042, -1.3233
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 24′ 15.12″ N, 1° 19′ 23.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]