Saint-Paul-Troix-Chateaux No. 2 / Augusta tricastrinorum / Saint-Paul-Troix-Châteaux
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05094PAU
Object Type: Stoup
Date Visited: 2001-06-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne cathédrale Notre-Dame de Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
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.
Church Address: 2 rue de Mgr Sibour, 26130 Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France
Site Location: Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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 Notes:
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Illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-): chalice-shaped, 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
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.349472, 4.767028
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 44° 20′ 58.1″ N, 4° 46′ 1.3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
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