Valence-sur-Baise / Valença de Baïsa / Valence-sur-Baïse

There is an object used now [May 2009] as a planter in the church that may possibly have been a baptismal font of a late period; it consists of a shallow hemispherical basin with a pronounced lip at the upper rim, otherwise plain, raised on a baluster-shaped stem, a round-to-square llower base; the whole is made of veined reddish marble. It is of a design found in French fonts from the 16th century, but also in gardens all over the country. There is one other object in grey marble (?) that appears to have some building motif on its sides; also used as a planter inside the church.