Plouescat / Plouscat / Ploueskad
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Scene Description: at the end of the south transept
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view of church interior - window - east window
Scene Description: above the altar
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of stoup
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15298PLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église Paroissiale Saint Pierre, Plouescat
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S transept
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00006406]: "La première église fut construite au 13e siècle, puisqu'on trouvait, selon Le Guennec ""quelques piliers et chapiteaux"" de cette époque dans la deuxième église, bâtie à partir de 1763 [...] Une troisième église est construite à partir de 1863"
Church Address: 2 Place de l'Église, 29430 Plouescat, France
Site Location: Finistère, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D330, in the Baie de Kernic, in the Morlaix arrondissement
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a plain dodecagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a cylindrical stem and lower base, both plain. The metal cover, a low dome with a pattern of sea creatures, is modern.
An enry for this church in Palissy [ref.: IM29001966] reports a grouping of two holy-water stoups of the 19th-20th century: "Ensemble homogène de 2 bénitiers réalisés au 19e ou au 20e siècle ; le piédestal est sculpté irrégulièrement, certains endroits semblant seulement épannelés.Les statues d'anges ont quitté les bénitiers pour rejoindre la nouvelle chapelle baptismale installée à droite du chœur [...] Kersantite [...] Revers sculpté [...] Cuve à trois vasques, base octogonale. Pied en bas-relief, base moulurée. Chaque bénitier est surmonté d'un ange en prière en ronde bosse. [...] Oeuvre inachevée (de sculpture) [...] Nef ; 3e pilier nord et sud." The stoups are illustrated in a digital photograph taken 15 June 2021 by René Hourdry [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plouescat_Eglise_Bénitier.jpg] [accessed 24 August 2025].
[NB: stoups noted but not listed in BSI on account of their late date]
An enry for this church in Palissy [ref.: IM29001966] reports a grouping of two holy-water stoups of the 19th-20th century: "Ensemble homogène de 2 bénitiers réalisés au 19e ou au 20e siècle ; le piédestal est sculpté irrégulièrement, certains endroits semblant seulement épannelés.Les statues d'anges ont quitté les bénitiers pour rejoindre la nouvelle chapelle baptismale installée à droite du chœur [...] Kersantite [...] Revers sculpté [...] Cuve à trois vasques, base octogonale. Pied en bas-relief, base moulurée. Chaque bénitier est surmonté d'un ange en prière en ronde bosse. [...] Oeuvre inachevée (de sculpture) [...] Nef ; 3e pilier nord et sud." The stoups are illustrated in a digital photograph taken 15 June 2021 by René Hourdry [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plouescat_Eglise_Bénitier.jpg] [accessed 24 August 2025].
[NB: stoups noted but not listed in BSI on account of their late date]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font and church
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.657645, -4.173876
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 39′ 27.52″ N, 4° 10′ 25.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: dodecagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecgonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: netal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]