Saint-Cast-le-Guildo No. 1 / Saent-Cast-le-Giledo / Sant-Kast-ar-Gwildoù

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier [...] Granite : taillé [...] La cuve est décorée d'une torsade et de têtes accompagnées de bras alternativement levés ou baissés [...] 16e siècle [...] H = 105 ; d = 85 [...] D'après un dessin de Ramé conservé aux Archives d'Ille-et-Vilaine (liasse 7FB174), ce bénitier serait l'ancienne cuve baptismale de Pléboulle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02342] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02342] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02343] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02343] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02342] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02342] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the hands on some the atlantes lean on it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02342] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02342] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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human figure - male - atlante

Scene Description: the hands on some the atlantes hold on to it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02343] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02343] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: towards the bottom of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02342] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02342] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [22W02342] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP22W02342] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ce bénitier date du 12e siècle et provient de l'édifice précédent. Il est orné de diables ou de mascarons."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Les bons restaurants, 2012
Image Source: digital photograoh 28 January 2012 by Les bons restaurants [http://www.certiferme.com/blog/impression_article.php?id_article=61707&id_blog=735] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "D'après un dessin de Ramé conservé aux Archives d'Ille-et-Vilaine (liasse 7FB174), ce bénitier proviendrait de l'ancienne cuve baptismale de Pléboulle. D'autre part, René Couffon date le bénitier du 13e siècle. Le pied et la vasque ne sont pas d'origine. Pour ce qui est du pied, il s'agirait d'un réemploi. La cuve est décorée d'une torsade et de têtes levant et baissant alternativement les bras."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général / Conseil général des Côtes-d'Armor, 2002
Image Source: digital image [IVR53_20022215055NUCA] 2002 by L'Haridon Erwana, in the Centre de documentation de l'inventaire du patrimoine culturel [inventaire.patrimoine@bretagne.bzh] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "bénitier de l'église de Saint-Cast le Guildo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Emmanuel Berthier, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph [DG-3246170] 26 October 2017 by Emmanuel Berthier [https://www.hemis.fr/image-photo/3197571/france-cotes-armor-saint-cast-le-guildo-benitier-eglise.html] [accessed 12 March 2023]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 20113CAS
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 16th century, Gothic? / Late Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: other such nearby at St-Germain-de-la-Mer, Landebia, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Cast
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cast [aka Cado, Kast]
Church Notes: earlier church demolished 1913; present church late-19thC, consecrated 1932
Church Address: rue du chanoine Ribault, 22380 St-Cast-le-Guildo, France
Site Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located between the D13 (W) and the D19 (E), NNE of Matignon, in the arrondissement de Dinan -- the church is located in the quartier du Bourg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et Tréguier
Historical Region: Pays de Matignon
Additional Comments: re-cycled stoup: formerly a font in Plebouille
Font Notes:
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM22001138]: "bénitier [...] granite : taillé [...] 16e siècle [...] h = 105 ; d = 85 [...] La cuve est décorée d'une torsade et de têtes accompagnées de bras alternativement levés ou baissés. [...] D'après un dessin de Ramé conservé aux Archives d'Ille-et-Vilaine (liasse 7FB174), ce bénitier serait l'ancienne cuve baptismale de Pléboulle." The basin has some atlante-like figures and some with their arms down in the panels created by a wide torsade pattern on the sides. Palissy [cf. supra] refers to a drawing by Ramé in the Archives d'Ille-et-Vilaine (liasse 7FB174), according to which this stoup was originally a baptismal font at nearby Pléboulle. The entry for this object in the Centre de documentation de l'inventaire du patrimoine culturel [inventaire.patrimoine@bretagne.bzh] [accessed 12 March 2023] suggests the 12th century for the basin and gives slightly different measurements from those in Palissy.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his additional sources on this object

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 554768 5386593
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 37' 24.21" N, 2° 15' 42.56" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm* / 84 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm* / 103 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy / ** Inventaire Général du Patrimoine Culturel