Cante / Canté

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human figure - male - wearing a toga and sandals

Scene Description: The stoup is the lower half of a Roman statue.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the basin of the modern font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04118CAN

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Eutrope

Church Patron Saints: St. Eutropius of Saintes [aka Eutrope]

Church Location: 09700 Canté, France

Country Name: France

Location: Ariège, Occitanie

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S door

Century and Period: 2nd - 5th century, Gallo-Roman

Cognate Fonts: Another such (?) in the parish church at St-Sulpice-sur-Leze (Haute-Garonne, France)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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)

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-