Martyre, La No. 3 / Ar Merzer / La Martyre

Results: 6 records

angel - cherub - 4?

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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W02539] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/3037/sap83_29w02539_p.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]
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design element - motifs - foliage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W02539] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/3037/sap83_29w02539_p.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]
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design element - patterns - ribbed

all around the side and underbowl
Scene Description: all around the side and underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W02539] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/3037/sap83_29w02539_p.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]
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human figure - female - bust

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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

inscription

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W02539] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/3037/sap83_29w02539_p.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]
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view of stoup in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2017
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W02539] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/3037/sap83_29w02539_p.jpg] [accessed 18 September 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 22349MAR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Salomon
Church Patron Saints: St. Salomon [aka Salaün]
Church Location: rue Saint-Salomon, 29800 La Martyre, France
Country Name: France
Location: Finistère, Bretagne
Directions to Site: La Martyre is located off the D35, a km WSW of Ploudiry, 6-8 km E of Landernau, 20 km WNW of Brest
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by one of the pillars towards the W end
Date: 1681
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Font Notes:
Another stone holy-water stoup listed for this church in Palissy [ref.: PM29000548]: "Grande vasque ovale reposant sur un buste de femme en cariatide. [...] Inscription et date : hace Aequa Benedicta sit nobis salus et vita 1681." [NB: the accompanying photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W02539] does not seem to show the bust of the Cariatide; instead it shows a number [4?] of cherubs above the ribbed pattern on the basin; the pedestal base seems to have only vegetal motifs].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.44902, -4.160069
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 26′ 56.47″ N, 4° 9′ 36.25″ W
UTM: 30U 414218 5366859

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Font Height (less Plinth): 130 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM29000548] total height

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "Inscription et date : hace Aequa Benedicta sit nobis salus et vita 1681."
Inscription Source: Palissy [ref.: PM29000548}