Eyrans No. 2 / Eyrans de Soudiac

The present font here consists of a smallish hemispherical basin decorated with a pronounced lip-moulding at the upper rim, raised on a moulded circular pedestal base and lower base of the same shape; all in greyish veined marble. Low-dome brass cover with cross finial. Cathoblaye.fr [www.cathoblaye.fr/secteur-pastoral/les-18-paroisses/eglise-saint-pierre-deyrans] [accessed 11 April 2014] informs: "Les fonds [sic] baptismaux proviennent d’une maison hospitalière tenue par des religieux, où ils soignaient et nourrissaient les pèlerins et les indigents. L’établissement fondé au XIIIe siècle, et dont le lieu-dit « L’Hôpital » témoigne encore de son ancien emplacement, a été détruit en 1880." According to Visites Aquitaine [http://visites.aquitaine.fr/fonts-baptismaux-de-l-eglise-saint-pierre-5345] [accessed 11 April 2014] the baptismal font came from the chapel of a 13thC pilgrims' hospital; the hospital had been destroyed in the 15th century, re-built thereafter and totally destroyed in 1880. [NB: we have no information on whether or not an earlier font had existed in the said hospital chapel].