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view of stoup
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view of font
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human figure - male - wearing a toga and sandals
Scene Description: The stoup is the lower half of a Roman statue.
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view of basin - upper view
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the basin of the modern font
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of stoup in context
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04118CAN
Object Type: Other
Object Details: statue, Roman
Date Visited: 2001-07-07
Font Century and Period/Style: 2nd - 5th century, Gallo-Roman
Cognate Fonts: Another such (?) in the parish church at St-Sulpice-sur-Leze (Haute-Garonne, France)
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Eutrope
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eutropius of Saintes [aka Eutrope]
Church Address: 09700 Canté, France
Site Location: Ariège, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km WNW of Saverdun, 24 km NNW of Pamiers, 50 km S of Toulouse
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pamiers
Historical Region: Canton de Saverdun, Portes d'Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: MUST USE: one of the most original conversions: the lower half of the statue of a toga-ed Roman man has been carved to use as stoup; also USE the example of the baptismal font in this church as "crime against humanity's taste"
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a most interesting holy-water stoup: it is the lower part of a [Gallo-Roman?] marble statue, a human figure wearing toga and sandals, which has been hollowed to use as stoup; the source [cf. supra] identifies it as an elegantly dressed male. On-site notes: the object is in very good state of repair; the basin well is only 8 cm deep. [NB: in contrast with the beauty of this classical statue-cum-stoup, the vessel used in this church as baptismal font is one of the most unsightly objects ever devised: it consists of a former wall-mounted dark marble stoup which has been detached from the wall and stood atop a crude column of bricks [cf. Images]; twenty lashes o' the cat for the perpetrator!]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: other (human figure)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: other (human figure)
Drainage System: no drainage system
Diameter (inside rim): 27 x 37 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 35 x 60 cm*
Basin Depth: 8 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 107 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI *[NB: the measurements of this irregular object correspond broadly to length and width of the upper area)
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, III A 39