Biozat No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 04943BIO
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Symphorien
Church Patron Saints: St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: In the canton de Gannat, arrondissement de Vichy
Font Location in Church: In a chapel on the north side
Century and Period: 18th century,
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Altough outside of the general scope of this Index, we are including this double-font found in one of the north chapels because of its odd stature: although the font conforms to the size and shape of this type of object, it is only 33 cm tall [it is possible that a stem existed which raised the font to the usual height of circa 100 cm, but there is no record of it].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: oval (mounted) (double-font)
Basin Interior Shape: round (basin1) semicircular (basin2)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Drainage Notes: the drain hole is actually on the semicircular inner well, roughly centre of the total font
Rim Thickness: 4.5-5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 55 x 36 cm (oval)*
Diameter (includes rim): 64 x 47 cm (oval)
Basin Depth: 10 cm (basin one)
Basin Total Height: 19 cm
Height of Base: 14 cn
Font Height (less Plinth): 33 cm
Square Base Dimensions: 54 x 41 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI *[NB: the diameter of the basin1 well is 28 cm]