Saint-Étienne-de-Carlat No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 04464ETI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise St-Étienne

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Country Name: France

Location: Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located in the canton de (and 9 km from) Vic-sur-Cère, arrondissement d'Aurillac

Font Location in Church: Outside the church, N of the apse

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Inventaire... (1984) as a 13th-14th century baptismal font, round with quatrilobe interior well and a cylindrical moulded base.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, andesite

Font Shape: round

Basin Interior Shape: quatre-foil

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 91 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm

Notes on Measurements: Inventaire... (1984)

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Auvergne, Cantal: canton Vic-sur-Cère, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1984