Saint-Aventin No. 3 / St-Aventin
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Results: 4 records
view of basin and cover
Scene Description: the font is not often used, if at all, by the look of it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 3 June 2015)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2001 by BSI
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 July 2001 by BSI
view of stoup?
Scene Description: a capital (?) later used as a stoup? - kept in the same alcove
INFORMATION
FontID: 05086AVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Aventin de Larboust
Church Patron Saints: St. Aventin
Church Location: 31110 Saint-Aventin, France
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located 5 kms W of Bagneres-de-Luchon, about 20 kms NW of the Vall d'Aran, 52 km S of Saint-Gaudens
Font Location in Church: In a locked alcove to the left of the entrance
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: The church has some very interesting capitals inside and a freeze outside [cf. Images area], which narrate the story of St. Aventin. Other interesting pieces in this church: an odd stone Crucifixion, a Madonna-with-Child, a statue of Isaiah, a Christ-in-Majesty tympanum, and at least one Roman ara incorporated in the external wall of the church.
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: the plain quasi-cylindrical basin has graded chamfering and stands on a thin round pedestal, equally plain. The font shares the locked alcove with a lovely marble stoup (originally a capital perhaps, then a stoup and now a flower-pot [cf. image below]), a couple of other objects and the enclosed treasure of the church in a glass-protected window on the left.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.806806, 0.548
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 48′ 24.5″ N, 0° 32′ 52.8″ E
UTM: 31T 299512 4742277
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: [unable to access and take measurements]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain