Sassis No. 2

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view of stoup

Scene Description: located at the west end, to the left (south) of the entranceway

INFORMATION

FontID: 24773SAS
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Sasis
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 65120 Sassis, France -- Tel.: +33 (0)5 62 92 98 30
Country Name: France
Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off the D821, just N of Luz-Saint-Sauveur, about 16 km SSW of Argelès-Gazost
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tarbes-et-Lourdes
Historical Region: Pays Tòy / Midi-Pyrénées
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the entranceway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Saligos and Sère
Palissy [ref.: PM65001223] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM65001223] [accessed 13 July 2023] lists a stoup or font in this church: "Bénitier ou cuve baptismale [...] Pierre : taillé [...] 13e siècle [...] Fiche et photographie manquantes". The entry for this church in Lavedan 65 [http://lavedan65.free.fr/?page_id=86] [accessed 13 July 2023] also notes: "un bénitier (ou cuve baptismale) en pierre du XIIIème siècle" in it. Emmanuel Garland's Les Églises romanes du Pays Tòy (avec une proposition de chronologie comparée), in Mémoires de la Société archéologique du Midi de la France, t. LXXVI (2016), p. 49-74 [https://societearcheologiquedumidi.fr/_samf/memoires/t_76/050-075_EG.pdf] [accessed 13 July 2023], in his comments on the font at Saligos and Sère mentions a somewhat similar holy-water stoup in Sassis, in the same area. Noted in the entry for Sassis in Tourisme Occitanie [https://www.tourisme-occitanie.com/fr/fiche/patrimoine-culturel/eglise-notre-dame-de-l-assomption-de-sassis-sassis_TFOPCUMIP065V5004I6/] [accessed 13 July 2023]: "À l’intérieur, présence d’un bénitier fruste de granit sculpté du XIIIème siècle". There are actually both a font and a holy-water stoup, both apparently medieval. [cf. BSI entries for Assis Nos. 1 and 3 for those objects].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.8789, -0.01583
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52' 44.0" N, 0° 0' 57.0" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square