Figeac No. 3 / Fijac

Enlart (1902, p. 784 footnote 3) identifies this stoup as a former Romanesque capital. Ditto Lasteyrie (1929). The Palissy database [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palsri_fr] [accessed 4 September 2011] [ref.: PM46000111] lists two 12th-century capitals without giving other particulars than the measurements of the two, without indicating which is which. Both are the common square-to-round capital shape, both decorated with an intricate vegetal pattern individual to each; they both have a prominent roll moulding at the bottom, which is now the top, as they have been upturned to serve as base to the basin of later date; the basins themselves, of a much later date, roughly hemispherical and decorated with prominent ribbed pattern on the outside; the basins, though similar, are not identical, one being made of reddish marble, the other brownish. We do not have information on the date they were set as stoups, though likely after the 17th century. [cf. Index entry for Figeac No. 3 for a second such stoup, and Figeac No. 1 for the baptismal font in this church]