List of the works of Bastien and Henry Prigent

[1] The Prigent atelier are attributed with work on the great porches at Landivisiau, Guivapas, Lampaul-Guimiliau and Pencran.

Above the biblical scenes in the arch's piédroits are depictions of the four Evangelists and their attributes, with Saints Luke and John positioned on the left and Mark and Matthew positioned on the right and finally a "heavenly choir" of thirty one winged angels are shown floating in the clouds and praying, singing, playing various instruments or holding censers.

The inside of the porch is vaulted and is decorated with the blason of the Danycan family and Henry Prigent added statues of "Christ the Saviour" and the twelve apostles in niches each with an elaborate canopy.

The heads of these apostles were damaged during the turmoil of the French revolution and bear signs of restoration and some of the attributes were destroyed which makes identification difficult.

Above the doors a tympanum depicts angels holding phylacteries on either side of a statue of Jesus Christ.

Hit by incendiary bombs in 1944 in the Allied push to take Brest from the occupying Germans, the church was subsequently rebuilt but there was enough left of the 1563 north porch to retain it and it has some sculptures and carvings attributed to the Prigent atelier including statues of the apostles and Jesus Christ in the porch interior, although eight of them were all decapitated during the turmoil of the 1789 French revolution, part of a nativity scene in the tympanum above the entrance arch and seven angels in the archivolt.

The arch is decorated with carvings of leaves and grapes which emerge from the mouths of a dog on one side and a dragon on the other.

In the tympanum above the door is what is left of a nativity scene; the heads of an ass and a cow poke out from the stable.

In the voussures of the archivolt all that remain are seven angels either at prayer, swinging a censer, playing a musical instrument or holding phylacteries.

[1][5] Note: At the Chapelle Saint-Yves in Guipavas there is a statue of Saint Yves attributed to the Prigent atelier.

They are the statue of Saint Paul-Aurélien in a niche on the outside of the porch, a Saint Michel fighting a dragon situated below this niche and also the sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist at prayer with a small angel positioned between them on the top of the porch lantern.

[1] The porch's entrance arch is of the "basket handle" type ("anse de panier") and the external voussure immediately around the rim of the arch is decorated with vine leaves and grapes and small carvings of people eating grapes or at play and some dogs and a bird.

The nine biblical scenes involves are thought to have been inspired by the Maître de Folgoët's porch at La Martyre.

Finally the carvings are of a "heavenly" host of angels singing, praying and playing instruments; a celebration of the birth of Christ!

At Le Tréhou there is a statue by Bastien of Saint Pitère decorating the niche on the porch gable.

At Quéménéven, Henry Prigent was the sculptor of the statue of Saint Lawrence who carries a closed book and a gridiron to remind us of the nature of his martyrdom.

Finally at Plouguerneau's chapel Notre-Dame du Traon is a Henry Prigent statue of Saint Suzanne.

Fayet also executed several sculptures of angels with their wings spread ("anges aux ailes dėployėes") which were positioned on either side of the crucified Christ and were collecting his blood into chalices.

Examples are at Briec-de-l'Odet for the Saint-Adrien calvary, at Landudal, in the cemetery at Plounéour-Ménez, the Sainte-Barbe chapel at Ploéven, the ėglise at Plozévet and on the Kernaliou cross in Trégourez.

A view of part of the Plougonven calvary. On the upper level left, we see Jesus brought before Pontius Pilate by two guards. Pilate is sat on his throne. This is followed by the scene depicting Christ carrying the cross commencing with John the Evangelist supporting the Virgin Mary . On the corniche below and starting on the left side we have the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi scenes then St Yves surrounded by a rich man and a poor man and finish on the right side with Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist watched by a kneeling angel who is carrying Jesus' robe. We finally catch the edge of the statue of Satan in the "temptation" scene
The Pleyben calvary. The entry into Jerusalem/ Palm Sunday . The sculptor suggests the gates of Jerusalem by his depiction of a doorway to the right. In this doorway, one man holds a palm and the second lays down a rug by way of a welcome. To the right we see the beginning of the scene depicting the "Last supper". Under the ass we see the words "Hossana fili David".
The north porch at Guivapas' église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul. Note what is left of a nativity scene in the tympanum
Bastien Prigent's statue of Saint Pitère
Bastien Prigent's statue of Saint Sebastian at Ploudiry
The Henry Prigent statue of Saint Lawrence at Quéménéven. He holds a gridiron
The remains of a calvary in La Forest-Landerneau's cemetery
Bastien Prigent's statue of the Virgin Mary in the tympanum over the entrance to the south porch of the Basilique Notre-Dame du Folgoët
Statue of Saint Apolline by Bastien Prigent at Brasparts
The monk at Irvillac
Salaũn ar Foll at the ėglise Notre-Dame at Le Folgoët
Fayet's limbless Christ at Irvillac
Fayet's "Ecce Homo" at Laz