Plouguerneau No. 2 / Gwikerneo / Ploe Kerneu / Ploekerneau / Ploueguerneau / Plougerne

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Results: 8 records
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of basin - interior
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - window - east window
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 15353PLO
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located in the Brest arrondissement, canton de Lannilis
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of building and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font of pink marble, consisting of an oval basin with double inner well and two smaller extra cavities for baptismal oils, etc.; the outside has a prominent roll moulding at the upper rim, and plain but bulging underbowl below; raised on a baluster-shaped pedestal base of the same material, oval and moulded. The metal cover is in the shape of a sea shell. There is a single drain hole in the left inner well, on the right side. The font is located in its own railed area at the southwest end of the nave.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (pink)
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both wells)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material:
metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]