Pin / Pin-Balma / Le Pin de Balmar

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sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: a/p Corblet's description

INFORMATION

FontID: 03520PIN
Museum and Inventory Number: In the Musée des Agustins or the Musée Saint-Raymond
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre du Pin-Balma
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Pl. de la Mairie, 31130 Pin-Balma, France -- Tel.: +33 5 61 24 01 56
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Pin-Balma is located 10 km ENE of Toulouse city centre
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: 10thC(?) church; much re-built and modified since; restaured 2005
Listed by Corblet (1881-1882) as being in the "Musée de Toulouse", and described as a 14th-century lead font covered in low-reliefs related to the rite of baptism, having been originally at the church of Pin [NB: Corblet probably referes to the parish church at Pin-Balma, just E of Toulouse]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.6281, 1.5336
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 37′ 41.16″ N, 1° 32′ 0.96″ E
UTM: 31T 381700 4831613

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882