Bazus-Aure No. 1 / Badús / Gassia de Basus / Gassie de Basus / Gassie de Bazuz

Results: 11 records

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: one of several

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

design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: forming partial triangular frames on the sides and underbowl

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

design element - motifs - scroll?

Scene Description: on the right side

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

design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: the band of saw-tooth motif covers only the front, not the sides

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

symbol - star - 6-point - in a cricle

Scene Description: one of the several motifs on the basin

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 - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2016 by Sotos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:65_HP_10_1841.jpg] [accessed 31 July 2016]

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view of church exterior - west tower

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

view of context

Scene Description: a fountain outside the church

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

view of font and cover

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

view of font and cover

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 04112BAZ

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Michel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: 65170 Bazus-Aure, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located between Grézian (N) and Guchan (S), 6 km S of Arreau

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tarbes et Lourdes

Historical Region: Les Véziaux d'Aure, Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the S side of the W door

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA65000009] as a 12thC church re-built in the 16thC; modified 18th, 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a Romanesque baptismal font built partly into the wall; it is ornamented with saw-tooth motif and stylised palmettes. Also listed, illustrated and described in Corbel (2000: 107), where the cylindrical support is described as a recent addition. On-site notes: the very irregular basin has a rectangular upper area and a somewhat rounded underbowl; the band on the upper basin has a continued saw-tooth motif, but only on the front, not on the sides; the underbowl has marked diagonal mouldings, again, very irregular, with several equally irregular motifs, except for one well-executed six-point star inside a circle; the other motifs are a few circles, 9-shaped motif, etc. As pointed out in Corblet (cf. supra), the plain cylindrical base could well be a later addition.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.856423, 0.350221

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 51′ 23.12″ N, 0° 21′ 0.8″ E

UTM: 31T 283513 4748277

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: irregular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: semicircular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 4-13 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 42 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 52 x 52 cm(?)*

Basin Depth: 12 cm

Basin Total Height: 33 cm

Height of Base: 50 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[the width of the top is estimated; it appears that a third of the stone is built into the wall]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Notes: the semicircular lid is hinged to the back of the font rim

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