Gessa No. 1
Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
Results: 14 records
symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - 2
Scene Description: at opposite ends of the basin -- only one of them is visible here, on the north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - 2
Scene Description: at opposite ends of the basin -- only one of them is visible here, on the south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tiedros, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2015 by Tiedros [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gessa_-_Sant_Pèir.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking northeast
Scene Description: showing the font in the north aisle; it was moved here from the west end of the nave during the restoration of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of church interior - north aisle - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carla del Valle, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2012 by Carla del Valle
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Juan Antonio Olañeta (e-mail of 5 December 2019)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of font - upper view
Scene Description: showing the drain hole inside the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Rota Serra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2021 by Montserrat Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02224GES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro / Sant Pere / Sant Pèir de Gessa
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: c/ Mayor, 9, 25598 Gessa, Lérida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the C-28, on the N bank of the Garonne river; now in the municipality of Alto Arán, in the Vall d'Aran, 9 km from Viella on the Bonaigua road
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran / Alto Arán
Font Location in Church: In a chapel at the back [moved from its original position during the restoration of the church to the north aisle]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Bossost, Cap d'Aran no. 2, Baguergue
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Rota Serra amd to Carla del Valle for the photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ): one of several fonts in this valley that consists of a round, bucket-shaped basin with a chamferred lower side and raised on a round-pedestal base; there are two Maltese crosses which this same source suggests may have been carved at a later date. Described as a "baptism bowl for immersion" (ACTUR web site, 1999:.3). Noted in Amiell (2007). The font consists of a round basin with tapering sides, decorated with two Maltese crosses at opposite ends; the lower end of the basin has a narrow chamfer all around, not really an underbowl; the round pedestal base is rather irregular, the lower end perhaps a moulding originally, but much eroded now; the circular plinth is now level with the raised flooring. No cover present, but there are two metal staples at opposite ends in the upper rim of the basin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.705414, 0.890203
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 19.49″ N, 0° 53′ 24.73″ E
UTM: 31T 327211 4730261
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 12 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 76 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47 cm*
Height of Base: 43 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. XIII: 394)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
ACTUR (www.actur.com/romai.htm], 1999. [URL discontinued / non active].
Amiell, Josep M., "Piques baptismal de la Val d'Aran", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 32-35; p. 33
Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-