Toulouse No. 2 / Tolosa

Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM31001489]: "fonts baptismaux [...] La cuve circulaire repose sur une base polygonale. [...] Base particulièrement usée, délitée ; il manque le couvercle. [...] inscription gravée sur la cuve ainsi que la date : 1305 [...] 1er quart 14e siècle ; 19e siècle [...] Le décor de la cuve date du 19e siècle. Figure dans l'inventaire dressé suite à la séparation des églises et de l'Etat au même emplacement." The present baptismal in this cathedral church is not the one from the original 12th-century church here; it consists of a round basin on an unmatched and very eroded polygonal base decorated with widow tracery on the stem and mouldings on the lower base; the basin itself, which bears the date 1305, would by force be a re-carving, if the date is correct for the original vessel; as indicated in Palissy above, the font was re-carved in the 19th century, which would account for the mouldings and the vines on it. The pedestal base decoration, window tracery with crocketed pinnacles on the stem sides, would fit in the high-Gothic period. There is a round, slightly domed cover with an inscription; it appears modern.