Saint-Brieuc-de-Mauron No. 1 / Sant-Brieg-Maoron

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view of church exterior in context - west view
INFORMATION
FontID: 20942BRI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Brieuc
Church Patron Saints: St. Brieuc [aka Breock, Breoke, Briavel, Brieg, Brioc, Briog, Briuc, Tyfrïog, Tyvriog]
Church Location: 56430 Saint-Brieuc-de-Mauron
Country Name: France
Location: Morbihan, Bretagne
Directions to Site: Located at the D2-D134-D303 crossroads, just W of Mauron, E of Rennes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Vannes [formerly in the Diocèse de Saint-Malo]
Historical Region: Pays de Mauron en Brocéliande
Font Location in Church: Insidee the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: similar to the font at nearby Brignac
Church Notes: a late-12thC priory church dependent of the Abbaye de Paimpont is mentioned here ca. 1199; the present church is late-19thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Rosenzweig (1863) reports a baptismal font in this church: "Fonts baptismaux dont le pied polygonal est orné de petits pilastres séparés par des trilobes."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 547531 5326534
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