Corsept / Corpus Septimum / Corset / Corseth / Corsuito / Korzed

Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique (1999) as a granite font (or stoup) and dated to the 13th century. It is octagonal and unmounted, three of the sides plain to fit against a wall. The other five sides of the basin -informs the source- are ornamented with strange images of difficult interpretation: on two sides very crude heads appear inside circles, each with a very large eye; on the opther pages there is a squire with a shield again his chest and three letters in a triangle, T E R,; also, an odd "Mélusine au miror, woman with her body ending in a snake tail, a devil and a human head on an animal body (Ibid., v. 1, p. 563). [NB: which font is the previous text about? -- TO BE RE-CHECKED] An old typewritten guide to the church [https://www.corsept.fr/pdf/53-1.pdf] [accessed 9 February 2019] reports a baptismal font of the Carolingian period, 9th-century, made of granite; it consists of a round basin raised on a metal framed with three stylised lion legs; the upper rim has two drilled holes at opposite ends, one still with the lead plug inside, which would have held the metal anchors for an old font cover. This same source mentions that the old font had been replaced by a black marble font of later design, and removed from the church to be used as a water trough at the rector's place nearby; it was returned to the church and its function at the time of the restoration of the church in 1993. The crude vat-shaped stone vessel is worn and cracked through; a side drain in the inner basin marches its use as trough. The modern font has the oval shaped with two inner basins of the 16th century and later periods. There is a third vessel in the church, a vat described in the source as a "cuve gallo-romaine en terre cuite" inside the Sacré Coeur chapel. [NB: despite the claims in the sources above the old font does not appear to be listed in the Inventaire/Culture databases].