Goulven / Goulc'hen

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the main basin: notice the off-centre drain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the secondary basin; the hole is probably not a drain but a communication with the drain of the larger basin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - altar

Scene Description: and the east window

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

Scene Description: at the southwest corner of the nave

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15352GOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Goulven de Goulven

Church Patron Saints: St. Goulven [aka Golven, Golvenus, Golvinus, Goulven de Léon, Goulwen]

Church Location: Le Bourg, 29890 Goulven, France

Country Name: France

Location: Finistère, Bretagne

Directions to Site: Located off the D125-D10 confluence, in Goulven bay, 5 km N of Lesneven, 25-30 km NE of Brest

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Léon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of building and font

Church Notes: an earlier church may have existed here in the 6thC; present church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00089981]: "15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle [...] de style flamboyant."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

One of the double-basin fonts of Brittany; made of granite, it consists of a main basin, octagonal and plain, with a chamfered underbowl, and a smaller oblong protrusion that shares the same pedestal base; the drain appears to go from an off-centre hole in the main basin through the side and out to the small basin. Octagonal wooden cover on the large basin, hinged in the middle giving access to a fully hollowed round well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.629245, -4.301558

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 37′ 45.28″ N, 4° 18′ 5.61″ W

UTM: 30U 404097 5387060

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) (main basin)

Basin Interior Shape: round (main basin) -- oblong (secondary basin)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (main basin) -- oblong (secondary basin)

Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]