Lasserade / Sarrante

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2013)

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: a leaf-like frame with a downwards prolongation

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Juan Ramon Ugarte

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2013)

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: on the right side of the basin, next to the wall; appears frilly or leafy

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramon Ugarte

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2013)

design element - motifs - vegetal

Scene Description: with curled ends

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramon Ugarte

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2013)

information

Scene Description: showing the church interior plan

Image Source: posted on the church

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by 1 July MOSSOT [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lasserade_-_Église_de_Croûte_-2.JPG] [accessed 20 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by 1 July MOSSOT [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lasserade_-_Église_de_Croûte_-1.JPG] [accessed 20 September 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramon Ugarte

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2013)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramon Ugarte

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 18694LAS

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Ausit de Croûte [aka Eglise Sainte-Christine -- formerly Eglise Saint-Barthélémy]

Church Patron Saints: St. Ausit [aka Ausias?] [St. Christina -- formerly St. Bartholomew]

Church Location: 32160 Lasserade France

Country Name: France

Location: Gers, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located on the D131, NE of Plaisance, 40 km N of Tarbes, 45 W of Auch

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Auch

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove off the nave

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Ramon Ugarte, of Vitoria, Spain, for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00094834]: "L'église semble avoir eu des liens avec l'ancienne abbaye de Tasque. Datée de la fin du 11e siècle, elle fut défigurée pendant les guerres de Religion, puis restaurée au 17e siècle. L'entrée s'effectue par une porte plein cintre encadrée de deux fenêtres. Le chevet a conservé son abside principale et ses absidioles latérales en plein cintre. Clocher carré datant du 19e siècle. A l'intérieur, la sculpture des chapiteaux se décline sur différents thèmes : végétation ; animaux ; histoire religieuse."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with leaf motifs at the front and sides; the one at the front frames the space where the cover lock is located, a square frame with a leafy shape below and a prolongation as piping all the way down the base; the motif on the right side of the basin appears more frilly than leafy; the one on the left looks like a tree-of-life symbol with curled branches; the base is polygonal with piping at regular intervals; the back of the font is against the wall of the niche in which the font is located; the back is hidden under the font cover, which is secured to the back wall, therefore it is very difficult to tell whether the back of the font is free-standing or partly embedded in the back wall. The cover itself is hinged at the back, and has large nails driven upwards to impede the top being used as a seat. The location and type of locking mechanism for the cover is characteristic of this area of the Pyrenees, bot north and south. [NB: we have no information on the original 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.625057, 0.063659

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 37′ 30.2″ N, 0° 3′ 49.17″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]