Cazeres No. 3 / Cazères sur Garonne

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04972CAZ
Church/Chapel: outside the parish church at Cazeres
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located 35 km ENE of Saint-Gaudens, SW of Toulouse
Font Location in Church: outside, under a porch
Century and Period: 4th century, Early Christian
On-site notes: octagonal sunken font from 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 was taken to Cazères and reconstructed in a porch attached to the parish church there. [Cf. Index entry for Cazères No. 2 for details of the baptistery itself]. Unfortunately, the church has no resources to care for the 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), brick & marble
Font Shape: octagonal (sunken)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: it is not clear whether the 5 cm conduit is for feeding in the water or for drain purposes
Diameter (inside rim): 120 cm
Basin Depth: 43 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI [NB: the walls of the font are between 30 and 35 cm thick]

REFERENCES

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