Grezian No. 1 / Gresilhano / Gresinhano / Grézian / Grisigna / Grizinga

Results: 7 records

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design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: on the left corner of the upper basin surface

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: to the left of the human figure, on the protrusion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: the upper one broken by the human figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

human figure

Scene Description: odd-looking human figure

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: on the right corner of the upper basin surface

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: to the right of the human figure, on the protrusion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2016 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04133GRE

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Juste-et-Saint-Pasteur

Church Patron Saints: St. Justus & St. Pastor

Church Location: 65440 Grézian, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located 4 km S of Arreau, arrondissement de Bagneres-de-Bigorre; not far from Sarrancolin

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tarbes et Lourdes

Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the foot of the stairs to the W gallery

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Church Notes: 12thC church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA65000133] with dates 12th, 15th-16th, 19thC ["Il semble que le dais ait été réaménagé au 19e siècle"]

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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a little stoup ornamented with a human figure and a rope motif, very worn. On-site notes: the shallow stoup is wall-mounted and access to the basin well is facilitated by a depression in the wall above it; the outer basin side is rectangular and plain at the front, but its upper surface, in the spandrels/corners near the well, has a circle motif on the left and a cross on the right; a strange-looking human figure is carved on the front of the underbowl, with a protruding foliage (?) motif on either side, again, the left with a circle and the right with a cross, matching the distribution of those motifs on the upper part. The worn rope motif -it now looks like a roll moulding- is around the basin well edge. [NB: there is another stoup listed for this church in the Index, entry for Grezian No. 2, and a crude baptismal font, entry for Grezian No. 3]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.870539, 0.351622

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 13.94″ N, 0° 21′ 5.84″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square?

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square?

Rim Thickness: 11 cm (at the front)

Diameter (inside rim): 31 cm

Basin Depth: 9 cm

Basin Total Height: 28 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

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