Figeac No. 1 / Fijac

Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 13th-century footless tub-shaped font ornamented with a blind arcade on the basin sides. Corblet (1881-1882) gives the same dating. Described and illustrated in Lasteyrie (1926-1927) with date in the 13th century. Classed in the Palissy database [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palsri_fr] [accessed 4 September 2011] [ref.: PM46000109] with date also in the 13th-century. The font is a bucket-shaped, almost cylindrical, basin raised on a squat round base of about the same diameter as the upper rim of the basin; below a roll moulding and a scotia at the rim, is an arcade of trefoiled arches decorated with a zigzag pattern, raised on columns with simple capitals and bases that end on another roll moulding all around the lower end of the basin; inside -so to speak- the arcade runs a parallel pair of rope mouldings all around; the spandrels of the arcade have rosettes, buildings, etc., in them; the rosette theme is pick up again around the lower base with a row of them. The font is still in a very good state of preservation. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the original 11th-century church] [cf. Index entries for Figeac Nos. 2 and 3 for two capitals used as bases for the holy-water stoups in the nave].