Saint-Paul-Troix-Chateaux No. 3 / Augusta tricastrinorum / Saint-Paul-Troix-Châteaux

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: low-relief pattern all around

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2019 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 23 June 2019 by BSI

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2019 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2019 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2019 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02472PAU

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Rue de Mgr Sibour, 26130 Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France -- Tel.: +33 4 75 96 41 06

Country Name: France

Location: Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located off the D59/D458 [aka Course des Barry], 17 kms SW of Grignan, down the D71 and right turn on the D59 to Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteauxabout 30 km N of Orange

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Valence

Historical Region: Drôme provençale

Font Location in Church: In the S side facing the altar, behind the large column, under a painting

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux was a bishopry until the French Revolution, hence the large cathedral. Some beautiful mosaics by the altar and colourful frescoes in the transept and other areas of the interior.

Font Notes: Click to view

Included in Narcisse (1979: 19). On-site notes: composite holy-water stoup located just inside the south entrance; sandstone bucket-shaped basin with long ribbed pattern from top to bottom; it is raised on a plain cylindrical stem of grey marble and a wider round lower base which appears to be also sandstone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.349444, 4.7675

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 20′ 58″ N, 4° 46′ 3″ E

UTM: 31T 640874 4912205

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (basin and lower base) and marble (stem)

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 6-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 63-64 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 79-80 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

Height of Base: 58 cm*

Height of Central Column: 26 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Narcisse, Jean-Claude, Art roman en Provence, Rennes: Ouest France, 1979