Brignac / Bregnac / Brennac / Brennieg
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view of church exterior - south porch and portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2016 by Pymouss [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Brignac_56_-_Église_2.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2017]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2016 by Pymouss [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Brignac_56_-_Église_3.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2016 by Pymouss [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Brignac_56_-_Église_1.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20941BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at Saint-Brieuc-de-Mauron, nearby
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne prieurale] Saint-Barthélémy
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew
Church Notes: church originally a priory dependent of the Abbaye de Paimpont; documented by 13thC; present church 15thC
Church Address: 56430 Brignac, France
Site Location: Morbihan, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D134, ESE of Ménéac, 23 km from Ploërmel, W of Rennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Vannes [formerly in the Diocèse de Saint-Malo]
Historical Region: Pays de Mauron en Brocéliande
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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Rosenzweig (1863) reports a 16th-century baptismal font in this church: "Fonts baptismaux à pied polygonal, orné de petits pilastres séparés entre eux par des trilobes." InfoBretagne [http://www.infobretagne.com/brignac.htm] [accessed 8 February 2017] mentions a 16th-century font in this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 545627 5330009
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.1214, -2.3874
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 7′ 17.04″ N, 2° 23′ 14.64″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Rosenzweig, Louis, Statistique archéologique de l'arrondissement de Ploërmel: Monuments du Moyen-Age (Extrait du Bulletin de la Société Archéologique du Horbihan pour 1869), Vannes: Imp. de J.-M. Galles, 1863, p. 4, 44