Lasserre / La Sèrra
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind
Scene Description: a/p Enlart's description
INFORMATION
FontID: 02877LAS
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de Laserre
Church Location: Rte. de l'Eglise, Lasserre, 64460 Montaner, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ariège, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Enlart puts Lasserre in Gers at one point and in Haute-Garonne at another. It is located off the D425, about 20 km NW of Toulouse, accessible on a local road from Leguevin.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Toulouse
Century and Period: 13th century [Enlart], Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Lombez, Puycasquier, Blagnac, etc. in France
Church Notes: original church 1059; destroyed 13thC; re-built 1264; badly damaged 1440; present church 1534-1541; modified 1860
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Like the other French fonts at Lombez, Puycasquier, etc., -Enlart (1902) writes- the font at Lasserre is made of lead and ornamented with similar motifs (a blind arcade?). He dates it to the 13th century. Equié (1880: 3n) reports having seen this font "très folie et très bien conservée" in mid-1850.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 351099 4770242
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
metal, lead
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; r["References"]