Bazus-Aure No. 2 / Badús / Gassia de Basus / Gassie de Basus / Gassie de Bazuz

Results: 4 records

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design element - motifs - ball - 3

Scene Description: one at each of three corners

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: all around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: on its replacement base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04113BAZ

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 , W end, S side of the door

Century and Period: 16th century,

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a 16th-century square stoup. On-site notes: this slightly irregular square marble holy-water stoup looks like a mortar, except that one of the corners is unfinished and the two sides corresponding to that angle are rough hewn; this probably means that it was either originally wall-mounted or was re-cut for that purpose. It now stands on a square pedestal to which the stoup is no match. The basin has a square plant but the upper rim has been rounded and half-ball motifs carved in the three finished corners; the underbowl has also been slightly rounded. [cf. also Index entry for Bazus-Aure No. 1, the Romanesque baptismal font built partly into the wall of the church; it is ornamented with saw-tooth motif]

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, marble

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 6-14 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 25 cm

Basin Depth: 11 cm

Basin Total Height: 30 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

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