Cazeres No. 1 / Cazères sur Garonne

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B01: Christ - Agnus Dei - in a circle - in a floral frame

Scene Description: cf. Font notes for details about this and the other Agnus Dei on the opposite side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

B02: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: circular floral

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B03: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: cross pattern

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B04: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: diagonal pattern

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B05: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: diagonal patern

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B06: Christ - Agnus Dei - in a circle - in a floral frame

Scene Description: cf. Font notes for details about this and the other Agnus Dei on the opposite side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

B07: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: circular pattern

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

B08: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: diagonal pattern

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B09: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: circular floral

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B10: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: diagonal floral

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BU01: design element - patterns - geometric

Scene Description: on the upper level, forming concentric diamond motifs

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

BU02: design element - motifs - garland

Scene Description: on the lower level

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 10 - cusped

Scene Description: they may have contained statues or paintings

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

LB02: cleric - bishop - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

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LB03: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

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LB04: cleric - monk - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

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LB05: animal - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

LB06: human figure - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

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LB07: human figure - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

LB08: cleric - bishop - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

LB09: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

LB10: cleric - monk - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

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LB11: human figure - male - head

Scene Description: in a spandrel

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LB12: design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: one in each arch

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

LB13: symbol - cross

Scene Description: one atop each arch of the blind arcade

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R01: inscription

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R02: inscription

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R03: inscription

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R04: inscription

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R05: inscription

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R06: inscription

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view of basin

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view of basin's top

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04123CAZ

Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Country Name: France

Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located 35 km ENE of Saint-Gaudens, SW of Toulouse

Font Location in Church: In the former sacristy, now used as treasure room or museum

Date: 24 July 1320

Century and Period: 14th century (early), Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: Mesplé (1970: 136) gives the fonts at nearby Lias and Mauran as related in decoration

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a baptismal font of mixed style dating from 1320; the Romanesque basin is decagonal and ormanented on its sides with foliage, interlace, Agnus Dei, etc.; the Gothic base is ornamented with trefoil arches. [NB: the date 1320 is given as the date of completion of the font ("achevés en 1320")]. Described and illustrated in Mesplé (1970: 133-134 and figs. 1-2) who gives the fonts at nearby Lias and Mauran as related in decoration. On-site notes: this is a beautifully carved basin of the Romanesque period mounted on a Gothic base. The whole surface of the basin is covered in busy ornamentation, symbols or inscriptions, except the very bottom of the underbowl. An inscription extends all around the upper surface of the rim [cf. Inscription]. The ten panels of the basin sides are: 1)haloed Agnus Dei with cross and head forward, in a circle and inside a floral window; 2)circular floral motif; 3)cross-shaped floral motif; 4)circular floral motif; 5)diagonal floral motif; 6) Agnus Dei with cross and head turned back, in a circle inside a floral window; the "lamb" looks more like a dog and appears to stick its tongue out at the cross; there is also a dragon in the floral window; 7)circular floral motif; 8)diagonal floral motif; 9)circular floral motif; 10)diagonal floral motif [NB: M. l'abbé, who was very generous and extremely patient and helpful during our work in this church, pointed out that the two clearly different "Agni Dei" had to have some meaning; he suggested the possibility of a "before-and-after" sequence in relation to baptism, especially since they are located at opposite sides of the basin and they are the only animated symbols on the basin, the rest being floral and decorative. We are most grateful to him for all his help]. The upper and middle registers of the underbowl are ornamented with a diamond motif pattern and a vine respectively. The Gothic base, almost half of which is at below-the-ground level [the original floor of the sacristy is now well over a foot below the present one], has a blind arcade of cusped trefoil arches; it is quite likely that these arches had originally either statuettes or painted contents in them, but they are now blank; the spandrels, however, are busy with a number of heads and motifs: bihop, male, monk, beast, head?, head?, bishop, male, monk, male; each arch bears a trefoil in its upper angle and is topped with a cross. [NB: A sunken baptismal font from an Early-Christian baptistery found nearby has been reconstructed in a porch outside the church; cf. Index entry for Cazères Nos. 2 & 3 for details]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: decagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: decagonal

Drainage Notes: the hole is now plugged/cemented

Rim Thickness: 16-20 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 90-91 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 123-128 cm [Mesplé gives 140 cm]

Basin Depth: 42 cm

Height of Basin Side: 26 cm

Basin Total Height: 67 cm

Height of Base: 56 cm

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 26 x 40 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 123 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[NB: this height is in relation to the original floor; the font is now at a confortable 97 cm height from the current floor, therefore being at the usual font height of approximately 100 cm.]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: transciption in Mesplé

Inscription Location: upper surface of the rim

Inscription Text: "FUIT ISTUD VAS COMPLETUM AD HONOREM DOMINI ET BEATAE MARIAE ANNO DOMINI MXXX VIGESIMO QUARTA DIE JULH"

Inscription Source: Mesplé (1970: 134)

REFERENCES

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

Mesplé, Paul, "Fonts baptismaux commingeois du XIVe siècle", 83, 2-3, Revue de Comminges (Pyrénées Centrales), 1970, pp. 133-140; r["References"]

Miquel, Caroline, "Monuments et mobilier de la période mediévale du canton de Rieumes (Haute-Garonne)", 1997, 12, Archéo en Saves, 1997, pp. 33-65; r["References"]