Cazeres No. 2 / Cazères sur Garonne

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Scene Description: Parish church on which side the baptistery has been recounstructed

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04971CAZ

Object Type: Baptistery

Date Visited: 2001-06-29

Font Century and Period/Style: 4th century, Early Christian

Church / Chapel Name: [reconstructed baptistery]

Font Location in Church: now attached to the parish church at Cazeres

Church Address: Pl. de L Hôtel de ville, 31220 Cazères, France

Site Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D6-D10 crossroads. 35 km ENE of Saint-Gaudens, about 55 km SW of Toulouse

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Toulouse

Additional Comments: re-cycled baptistery: transported from its original site in a nearby farm

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On-site notes: these are the remains of an Early-Christian baptistery discovered in the place known as "Le Bantayré", near Saint-Cizy. a commune of Cazères, by a local farmer while turning the soil [cf. Images for a description, plans of the site and other details in an article by Gabriel Manière - bibliographical reference below]. The sunken font of this baptistery and some of the artifacts of the necropolis in which it was located were brought to Cazères and reconstructed in a porch attached to the parish church there. [Cf. Index entry for Cazères No. 3 for details of the sunken font reconstructed here]. Unfortunately, the church has no resources to care for site and the town council appears to ignore the need to protect this reconstruction which is often used by some locals as handy rubbish dump, mingitorium, vomitorium et caetera! [We are grateful to M. l'abbé for his friendly help and we share his dispair for the negligence and vandalism with which this site is treated].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to M. l'abbé, who was very generous and extremely patient and helpful during our work in this church

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 344576 4785414

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.20551, 1.08679

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 12′ 19.84″ N, 1° 5′ 12.44″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: mixed (stone & brick), stone and brick

REFERENCES

Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998, vol. 2: p. 168-169
Manière, Gabriel, "Le site antique du Bantayré à Saint-Cizy, commune de Cazères: nécropole et implantation néochrétienne", 46 (1965), Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Midi de la France, 1965