Saint-Paul-Troix-Chateaux No. 2 / Augusta tricastrinorum / Saint-Paul-Troix-Châteaux

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05094PAU

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Ancienne cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: France

Location: Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located off the D59/D458 [aka Course des Barry], 17 kms SW of Grignan, down the D71 and right turn on the D59 to Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux about 30 km N of Orange

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Valence

Historical Region: Drôme provençale

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Church Notes: St-Paul-Trois-Châteaux was a bishopry until the French Revolution, hence the large cathedral. Some beautiful mosaics by the altar and colourful frescoes in the transept and other areas of the interior.

Font Notes: Click to view

Illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-): chalice-shaped and crudely carved stoup, practically the size of a baptismal font; it is made of three volumes: rounded basin, tronco-conical stem and cylindrical base. It appears to be used as a flower pot now [ca. 1966]. Enlart (1902) lists an 'urn-shaped" font for this church. On-site notes: a medieval holy-water stoup of heavy design; the basin and upper base are all one piece of sandstone, both quasy-cylindrical and plain, the base narrower. It is raised on another round lower base, in two pieces, also of sandstone.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 640836 4912207

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 24-28 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 48-51 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 74-75 cm*

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43 cm*

Height of Base: 51 cm*

Height of Central Column: 32 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site