Grezian No. 3 / Gresilhano / Gresinhano / Grézian / Grisigna / Grizinga

Results: 6 records

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - r0ound arches

Scene Description: crudely executed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin and cover

Scene Description: showing part of the basin interior and the centre drain hole -- the repair to the front of the upper rim may have been done for damage related to the hardware of an old font cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - lych-gate - tympanum

Scene Description: chrismon atop the outer gate to the churchyard; catalogued as 12thC in http://www.claustro.com/Crismones/Webpages/Catalogo_crismon.htm [accessed 4 November 2016]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2015 by Sotos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:65_HP_10_4721.jpg] [accessed 4 November 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: the 12thC chrismon in the foreground

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 16thC (?) font and the 19thC backdrop

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04885GRE

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, in the W end, N side

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed, illustrated and described in Corbel (2000: p. 159) who dates the dais to the 19th century. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM65000708] as a limestone font of the 16th century with a wooden structure of the 19th century. On-site notes: the roughly hemispherical font is rather crude, with a blind arcade ornamenting the basin sides; the peeling paint which covers it and the bad repairs showing on the basin upper rim do not make it any more appealing to the eye; the base is a cylindrical pedestal, equally crude and there is a back-hinged wooden lid to match. The "dais" mentioned in Corbel is a two-door armoire against which the font stands.

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: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 14 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 99-100 cm

Basin Depth: 21 cm

Basin Total Height: 33 cm

Height of Base: 48 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, pine

Apparatus: no

Notes: The modern lid is hinged in its middle and provides access to the front half of the basin well.

REFERENCES

Corbel, Pierre-Yves, Hautes-Pyrénées: Vallée d'Aure II: canton d'Arreau, Toulouse: ACCORD/Midi-Pyrénées, éditions du patrimoine, 2000