Guchen No. 2 / Gisen / Guishen / Gussen / Guxen / Guxenio / Guxennio
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human figure - head - 4?
Scene Description: One at each corner of the upper basin, but now mostly defaced or broken off; the one on the left corner here is still identifiable as a human head
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 10 July 2001 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04887GUC
Object Type: Stoup
Date Visited: 2001-07-19
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Brice et Sainte-Catherine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Brictius [aka Brice of Tours] & St. Catherine
Church Address: 41 Route de la Vallée d'Aure, 65240 Guchen, France
Site Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D929, just SSE of Arreau, in the valley of Aure, N of the Spanish border
Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: the known provenance is "un jardin du village" (Corbel, 2000:168), but could very well have started in another church originally, even as a capital
Font Notes:
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Listed, described and illustrated in Corbel (2000: p. 168) as one of the stoups in the parish church at Guchen and dated to the Middle Ages; it has roughly the same shape as the other stoup, i.e., capital-shaped with square top and round botom, with heads at the upper corners of the basin and some motif -now badly eroded- on the front side; it now sits directly on the floor. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM65000997] as a medieval stoup, "Cuve provenant d'un jardin du village, récemment entreposée dans le porche de l'église (1997)". The same church has a lavabo in the sacristy with a cherub on the basin front, which would make a beautiful stoup anywhere [cf. additional church images], and another stoup not too dissimilar from this [cf. Index entry for Guchen No. 1]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: no drainage system
Rim Thickness: 4-10 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 38 x 41 cm*
Basin Depth: 18 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm* / 45 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 47 x 51 cm* / 45 x 51 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: IM65000997]
REFERENCES
- Corbel, Pierre-Yves, Hautes-Pyrénées: Vallée d'Aure II: canton d'Arreau, Toulouse: ACCORD/Midi-Pyrénées, éditions du patrimoine, 2000, p. 168-169