Biozat No. 2

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04943BIO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2001-07-01
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Symphorien de Biozat
Font Location in Church: In a chapel on the N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Church Notes: 12thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093007] -- There a number of interesting polychrome historiated capitals of the Romanesque period in this church [cf. the Images section for a sample]
Church Address: 2 Chem. de l'Église, 03800 Biozat, France
Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D36-D119 crossroads, 5 km ESE of Gannat, 12 km WSW of Vichy
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Moulins
Font Notes:
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].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 520940 5102791
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.078377, 3.270809
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 4′ 42.16″ N, 3° 16′ 14.91″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: double-font, oval, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round (basin1) semicircular (basin2)
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, oval
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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]