Auray

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - organ

Scene Description: 1761, by Alréen Waltrin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: the 17th-century retable by Olivier Martinet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of font

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view of font in context

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view of stoup - northwest view

Scene Description: located at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

view of stoup - west view

Scene Description: located at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2013 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 18527AUR

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Gildas d'Auray [aka St. Guedas d'Auray]

Church Patron Saints: St. Gildas [aka Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw, Gildas Sapiens, Gweltaz]

Church Location: 7 place Gabriel-Deshayes, 56400 Auray

Country Name: France

Location: Morbihan, Bretagne

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Vannes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,

Church Notes: "L'église paroissiale Saint-Gildas d'Auray a été construite en 1623 sur les plans de Gilles Monsay, architecte de Port-Louis. Elle porte la date de 1636 sur les trois pignons et a été consacrée en 1641. Le clocher, achevé en 1663, fut abattu et reconstruit en 1832. L'ensemble de l'édifice est homogène et sobre. Le retable du maître-autel a été édifié en 1657 par l'architecte lavallois Olivier Martinet." [Mérimée ref.: PA00090993] -- "L’église St Gildas doit son nom à un prieuré du 12e siècle qui dépend de l'abbaye bénédictine de la presqu’île de Rhuys. Elle fut conçue à l'emplacement de l’ancien prieuré par l’architecte Gilles Monsay qui associe formes médiévales et style baroque. Les travaux commencent en 1623 mais ne sont achevés qu'en 1663. [...] A l'intérieur on peut admirer un gisant du Christ du 16e siècle restauré récemment. L’imposant retable du maître-autel est de style Levallois et date du 17e. l'orgue de Waltrin date de 1761." [source: www.petit-patrimoine.com/fiche-petit-patrimoine.php?id_pp=56007_4 [accessed 9 July 2013]]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of veined marble, consisting of an oval basin raised on a rectangular pedestal base of baluster shape; the basin has four internal divisions: two large round wells at the sides, the one on the south side provided with an off-centre drain hole, and two smaller wells, one rectangular, one oval, between the former. The wooden cover is modern. At the west end of the nave is a large holy-water stoup made of grey-black marble, consistsing of a roughly hemispherical basin with palmette and ribs below a pronounced rim noulding, raised on a moulded rectangular pedestal of the baluster type; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.667223, -2.98628

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 40′ 2″ N, 2° 59′ 10.61″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: oval (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]

Basin Exterior Shape: oval

Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Diameter (inside rim): 59x83 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 74x98 cm

Basin Depth: 21-22 cm

Basin Total Height: 31 cm

Height of Base: 64 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 27x30 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: oval, flat and plain, with Latin cross finial