Teillet / Telhet
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02970TEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Calmeilles, Vilar-de-Reynes, Talau, Candiés-de-Conflent, Toreillés
Church / Chapel Name: [Église paroissiale]
Site Location: Tarn, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: On the banks of Lac de Rassisse, 25 km from Albi.
Font Notes:
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One of several 11-12th century unmounted oval ("franchement ovale") fonts listed by Enlart (Enlart, 1902)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 446939 4853789`
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 767 footnote 1; p. 774 footnote 1