Roche-Derrien No. 1 / Ar Roc'h-Derrien / Kêr ar Roc'h / La Roche-Derrien
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BH01:
human figure - head - male - bearded - 4
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17813ROC
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Catherine / Eglise Sainte-Catherine-d'Alexandrie
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]
Church Location: Place de l'Eglise, La Roche-Darrien
Country Name: France
Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne
Directions to Site: La Roche-Derrien is 15 kms SE of Perros-Guirec and 5 kms from Treguier, in the Armorican coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et Tréguier
Historical Region: formerly Côtes-du-Nord
Font Location in Church: inside the church, in the baptistery, beneath the tower
Date: ca. 1400? [Enlart]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church Notes: the original church here was apparently founded by the Augustinian canons of the priory of Sainte-Croix de Guingamp; it was damaged by the English in the mid-14th century, and re-built soon thereafter; restored at least twice in the 19th century
Included by Enlart (1902) in a list of French double-fonts and as octagonal of Gothic style on which he identifies the heads of the four animals symbolic of the Evangelists. The Palissy database [référence: PM22001047] notes the baptismal font of the church as being made of granite and measuring 100 cm in height; the larger of the two basins is raised on a prismatic stem and a square base; the smaller basin is not decorated at all. Both references appear to refer to the double-basin font inside the church, in the baptistery ["la chapelle des fonts"], located at the southwest end of the nave, beneath the tower. The four heads decorating the larger of the two basins appear to be human and bearded, wearing different headgear, therefore not likely to be the symbols of the Evangelists; the octagonal stem of the main basin is moulded; the secondary basin is also octagonal but plain; it is raised on a round thin stem, but the lower base is octagonal and moulded. The Topic-Topos site [http://fr.topic-topos.com/fonts-baptismaux-la-roche-derrien] [accessed 26 December 2011] suggests the four heads may symbolise the four rivers of Paradise.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.746745,
-3.262253
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 44′ 48.28″ N,
3° 15′ 44.11″ W
UTM: 30U 481012 5399386
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: Double-font
Basin Interior Shape: round (main basin) -- octagonal (secondary basin)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (both basins)
Drainage Notes: only the secondary basin of a double-font has a drain
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [référence: PM22001047]]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
