Cazeres No. 2 / Cazères sur Garonne
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view of baptistery - detail
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Scene Description: Article by G. Manières-1
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Scene Description: Article by G. Manières-2
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Scene Description: Article by G. Manières-3
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Scene Description: Article by G. Manières-4
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2001
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Scene Description: Article by G. Manières-5
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Parish church on which side the baptistery has been recounstructed
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2001
INFORMATION
FontID: 04971CAZ
Object Type: Baptistery
Church/Chapel: [reconstructed baptistery]
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Font Location in Church: now attached to the parish church at Cazeres
Century and Period: 4th century, Early Christian
Font Notes:
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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].
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
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