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Scene Description: the present structure housing the font is not the original baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03671CHA

Church/Chapel: Baptistery [disappeared] now part of Notre-Dame-du-Brusc

Church Location: Chemin de Notre Dame du Brusc, 06740 Châteauneuf-Grasse, France -- Tel.: +33 4 92 60 36 03

Country Name: France

Location: Alpes-Martimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: In the Canton de Bas-sur-Loup, NW of Antibes

Font Location in Church: Originally the baptistery was attached to the west wall of the church, later under a porch

Century and Period: 5th - 6th century, Early Christian

Church Notes: It is now in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Brusc; the church is listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080703]

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Only the heptagonal sunken basin remains now of what is the first rural baptistery discovered in Provence. The well has two steps leading to a deeper well to fit the feet of one cathecumen [cf. Chateauneuf No. 2 for details of the disappeared baptistery] (Patrimoine…Alpes-Maritimes, 2000, v. 1, p. 90). On-site notes: the reconstructed site has little more than the sunken font with its two steps onm both sides leading to a narrow hole in which the baptizand's feet would stand. Although we describe the basin shape as heptagonal, it is quite irregular and perhaps more appropiately described as "oblong". [NB: the site is only accessible when the church is open; the Mairie is not keen on providing the keys otherwise, but the piscina is visible from the outside through the iron bars.]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.6542, 6.98522

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 39′ 15.12″ N, 6° 59′ 6.79″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: heptagonal (sunken)

Basin Interior Shape: heptagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal

Diameter (inside rim): 100 x 107 cm*

Basin Depth: 56 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[NB: the piscina is very irregular: the depth varies between 56 cm and 68 at the deepest place where the feet of the baptizand would be placed; the longest side is 65 cm and the shortest 33 cm; the steps themselves are also of uneven measurements]

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes des Alpes-Maritimes, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000

Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998