Carcassonne No. 2
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Scene Description: Source caption: " Fonts baptismaux du XVIe siècle, en grès. Musée Lapidaire de Carcassonne"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tylwyth Eldar, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 19 September 2021 by Tylwyth Eldar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carcassonne_-_Fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 21 May 2022]
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Scene Description: the font as displayed in the museum in 1958
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2022
Image Source: digital image [AP58P01320] of a 1958 B&W photograph [58P01320] by Ferron [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP58P01320] [accessed 21 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04968CAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée Lapidaire de Carcassonne
Church/Chapel: [unknown]
Church Location: NB: address & coordinates for the museum] La Cité Médiévale, 11000 Carcassonne, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aude, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off the N113, N of the A61, about 55 km W of Narbonne -- the museum is located in the Cité, inside the Château Comtal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Carcassonne et Narbonne
Historical Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and foe his help in documenting iit
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM11001970] as a baptismal font made locally in the 16th century: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 16e siècle [...] Oeuvre de provenance locale [...] Cette cuve baptismale est de forme octogonale" -- the location is given as: "Château comtal [...] Dépôt lapidaire, palier de l'escalier nord, salle 7". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP58P01320].
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 17 May 2022] gives the location as "dans la salle Pierre-Embry' inside the museum and gives a reference to Auzas P.-M., « Salles de sculptures du château comtal de Carcassonne », Congrès archéologique de France, 131e session, 1973 : Pays de l’Aude , Paris, Société française d’archéologie, p. 546.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.207244, 2.363031
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 12′ 26.08″ N, 2° 21′ 46.91″ E
UTM: 31T 448256 4784026
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal