Quimper No. 5 / Kemper

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Scene Description: plaque outside the church (it does not mention the earlier Romanesque church that was replaced by the early-16thC church re-built in the 19thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2013 by Julien1978 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Mathieu_(Quimper).jpg] [accessed 7 May 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Quimper : l'église Saint-Mathieu vue du mont Frugy".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2012 by Moreau.henri [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quimper_95_L'église_Saint-Mathieu_vue_du_mont_Frugy.JPG] [accessed 7 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2012 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quimper_(29)_Église_Saint-Mathieu_02.JPG] [accessed 7 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2012 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quimper_(29)_Église_Saint-Mathieu_03.JPG] [accessed 7 May 2017]

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FontID: 21212QUI

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Mathieu / Iliz San Vaho

Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew

Church Location: Chapeau Rouge, rue du Paradis, 29000 Quimper, France -- Tel.: +33 2 98 55 58 90

Country Name: France

Location: Finistère, Bretagne

Directions to Site: The church is located off (E) the D765, across (W) Le Steir from the cathedral

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper et Léon

Historical Region: Cornouaille

Century and Period: 12th century / 16th century, Romanesque? / Renaissance?

Church Notes: a church existed here by the end of the 12thC: "Le cartulaire de Saint-Corentin, nous apprend, en effet, qu'en 1209, l'Archevêque de Tours [Note : L'Archevêque de Tours était le Métropolitain de l'Evêque de Quimper, notre diocèse ayant fait partie, avec les autres évêchés de Bretagne, de la province ecclésiastique de Tours, jusque vers 1858] confirma la cession faite par le Duc de Bretagne à l'Evêque de Quimper du droit de patronage qu'il avait dans l'église de Saint-Mathieu. C'est assez dire que notre paroisse existait avant cette époque"; a later church of the late 15thC replaced the medieval one: "il est certain, du moins, qu'une église, de style roman, a précédé la vieille église que nous venons de voir disparaître. Celle-ci avait été construite à la fin du XVème siècle, de 1498 à 1515" [www.infobretagne.com/quimper-saint-mathieu.htm] [accessed 7 May 2017]; present church is 19thC

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The present font dates from the building of the present building, mid-19th century; this font and the holy-water stoups were made of marble by the Nantes sculptor M. Vallet according to InfoBretagne [www.infobretagne.com/quimper-saint-mathieu.htm] [accessed 7 May 2017] [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the two earlier churches (12thC? and 15th-16thC) here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.995918, -4.107846

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 59′ 45.31″ N, 4° 6′ 28.25″ W

UTM: 30T 417354 5316440