Carbonne No. 1

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BIB01: Christ - Agnus Dei

Scene Description: a/p the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ); the source reads "Bénitier en marbre, portant au fond, en relief, l'agneau pascal" -- [NB: confirmed on-site]

INFORMATION

FontID: 04119CAR
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Laurent
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: SE of Toulouse, jus E of the crossroads A64-E80 and the D626
Font Location in Church: West end, south of the nave, between two columns
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: another almost identical in the same church
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a stoup which has an Agnus Dei in relief at the bottom of the basin well [NB: the source reads "Bénitier en marbre, portant au fond, en relief, l'agneau pascal"]. On-site notes: one of two almost identical holy-water stoups, this one has indeed an Agnus Dei carved on the bottom of the inner basin well. [NB: a number of fonts and/or stoups have fish, or even a frog, carved on the inside of the basin well -- cf. Index entries for Acerenza, Courseoult, Dinan, Narbonne, etc.] The basin is almost hemispherical and it rests on a cylindrical upper base and an octagonal square lower base and square plinth. [NB: our gratitude to M. l'abbé of Carbonne, Pierre Dintilhac, and example of French hospitality and bonhomie at its best, who not only gave us access to the font and stoups in his own church, but also guided us personally to three other interesting sites in the surrounding area, all of it in the most miserable weather possible in the middle of summer!]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (grey)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 4 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 73 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm
Basin Depth: 14 cm
Basin Total Height: 30 cm
Height of Base: 80 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI

REFERENCES

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