Gourdon nr. Sarlat-la-Caneda / Gordon / Gourdon en Quercy

Listed in Enlart (1902) as a 14th-century footless tub-shaped font ornamented with an arcade with figures -Christ and the Apostles- depicted inside the arches. Lasteyrie (1926-1927), who dates it to the late 14th or early 15th century, describes it as dodecagonal, ornamented with an arcade topped with bell-turrets, rosettes, etc.; a human figure fills the inside of each arch, but Lasteyrie does not identify them. He does however inform that the font is now [ca. 1926] used as holy-water stoup and that the interior of the font well was adjusted making a division in it and inserting a masonry basinette in one of the parts. The Palissy database [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palsri_fr] [accessed 4 September 2011] [ref.: PM46000138] dates the font to the 14th century and identifies the figures as Christ and the twelve Apostles. Illustrated in the Base Mémoire, Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN [photo ref.: MH0044082] [accessed 4 September 2011], where it appears described as stoup, not a font. [NB: this font is reported in an uncorroborated source as being originally from another church (perhaps St-Pierre?)]