Mazerolles

Noted in Michel Caron [http://ch.lerolle.free.fr/eglises17/mazerolles_eglise_notre-dame.php] [accessed 18 May 2025]: "une curieuse cuve baptismale avec son bénitier accolé, taillé dans un bloc de pierre. Le doute subsiste encore sur sa datation, bien qu’elle porte la date de 1348." A double-basin limestone baptismal font described and illustrated in the Patrimoine des communes... Charente-Maritime (2002, v. 2: 598); the font consists of an octagonal font with a smaller rounded appended basinette; the latter is roughly hemispherical and considerably larger than most of the ones found in French double-fonts; it is built of a single block of limestone. There are several plain mouldings on different parts of the font. This same source points out that the date inscribed on the font is partially erased: "1348 ou 1848?" [of the two dates the most likely is the first]. The main basin has a round hinged cover. [NB: cf. Index entry for another monolithic double-font of similar general structure, although of a much earlier date and hemispherical instead of octagonal, at Castello d'Empuries] [Flohic ref.: 17211102]