Aulon / Aulon nr. Saint-Gaudens

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Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon

Scene Description: on one of the basin sides, each on a separate partition of the grid or net; a cross in the middle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

animal - bird

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - lily? - 2

Scene Description: two visible here; several others on other sides of the basin; or, are they swords?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: two of them in the right triangle here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: several of them here: one may be a lilly, another one a heart and??, etc.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - patterns - reticular

Scene Description: a grid of crossing mouldings covering the sides of the octagonnal basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - male - arms extended

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - male - arms extended

Scene Description: a catechumen? / a Christ figure?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC ACCESS

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC ACCESS

symbol - anchor?

Scene Description: is the other a trident?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: between St, George and the dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - swastika

Scene Description: the cross is not exactly as expected; is it that?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: partially visible here in the top right corner

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - triquetra - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west end

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04107AUL

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Félix-de-Valois

Church Patron Saints: St. Felix

Church Location: 65240 Aulon, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D30, at the foot of the Arbizon, SE of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, 9 km S of Arreau, in the Vallée d'Aure; reachable via the Aragnouet-Bielsa tunnel

Historical Region: Vallée d'Aure

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, in the centre, to the left of the entrance

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Church Notes: modified Romanesque church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00095446]: "d'époque romane, remaniée au 15e siècle"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a late Romanesque baptismal font ornamented with geometric motifs and trefoils. Also listed in Corbel (2000: 92). On-line notes: the basin is octagonal and there is a net-like grid of vertical and diagonal mouldings which cover its surface; the junction points at the bottom of each of the eight angles culminates in a half-ball motif, quite noticeable and some times with a human face carved on it. At other interstices and junctions there is a curious array of motifs: Chirst-like human figures with extended arms, crosses, a horseman-and-dragon scene, fleur de lis, trefoils, birds, a swastika?, etc. By contrast, the culindrical stem of the base is totally plain. The mixed imagery and the shallow well of the basin may be indicators for a later dating.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.851023, 0.296899

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 51′ 3.68″ N, 0° 17′ 48.83″ E

UTM: 31T 279137 4747816

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble? or granite?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8-11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 69 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 86-95 cm (octagonal)

Basin Depth: 20 cm

Basin Total Height: 48 cm

Height of Base: 36 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: there are two metal staples still left on the upper surface of the basin

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Corbel, Pierre-Yves, Hautes-Pyrénées: Vallée d'Aure II: canton d'Arreau, Toulouse: ACCORD/Midi-Pyrénées, éditions du patrimoine, 2000