Fleurance No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 10108FLE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale St-Laurent [formerly: de l'Assomption / Notre-Dame de Fleurance]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary [originally; now St. Lawrence
Country Name: France
Location: Gers, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located 24 kms north of Auch on the N21
Date: 1564
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Medieval
The web site of this parish [http://notredamedefleurance-catho32.cef.fr/Fleurance.html] mentions a stone baptismal font in this church; the font carries the date of the first Protestant exaction carried out in this church in the 16th century: "vesena plebs hereticorum me dextruxit et ecclesia auxitana reparavit MCLXIIII" [sic] [NB: it is not clear whether or not this inscription is on the font itself, nor whether the error in the Roman numeral dating is in the transcription or in the original] [cf. Index entry for Fleurance No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of the same period reported by Enlart -- see also entries for Lamothe-Endo for a font and stoup in the nearby église St-André].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]