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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05095PAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2001-06-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne cathédrale, actuellement Église paroissiale de Saint-Paul-Troix-Châteaux
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00117054]: "construite à partir du milieu du 12e siècle dans le style roman provençal"
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-Châteauxabout 30 km N of Orange
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Valence
Historical Region: Drôme provençale
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed by Corblet simply as being an urn-shaped ancient font (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 125) [NB: not known where this font is now]. On-site notes: no information was available on the whereabouts of the original baptismal font of this cathedral. The current font is an octagonal object of several parts, done in beige and siena in 1867 [cf. Images for details]
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
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: a plaque on the wall behind the font
Inscription Text: [cf. Images area]
Inscription Source: On-site
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 125