Aubert / Aubèrt
Results: 3 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: around the lower edge of the basin side
BU01: design element - motifs - rope - 2
Scene Description: two rope motifs around the underbowl, concentric with the one at the lower edge of the basin
LB01: design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of, around the lower base
INFORMATION
FontID: 02235AUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sant Martin / Sant Marti / S. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the Val d'Aran, 3 km NNW of Viella
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: Sant Martin is a single-nave church located in the outskirts of the village (there is another church, Era Mare de Diu deth Roser, in the main square), at the side of the road leading to Arros and Vila. The public fountain of the village has a beautiful chrismon with the figure of a bishop, probably recycled from elsewhere. A frontal of a paleochristian sarcophagus is embedded in the village fountain (ACTUR, 1999, p.5). The reference in Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. xiii: 445) points out that the chrismon shows an inverted "S" and that the bishop depicted on the left of it is rather schematic. The origin of this object is not known, although -this last source suggests- it may have come from the village church.
Font Notes:
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Described in Durliat (1978): the large cylindrical basin has three rope mouldings at the lower side and underbowl, and rests on a base made up of a central column with attached half-columns; the lower base is ornamented with ball motif. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ), where it is dated to the late 12th or early 13th century. Noted in Amiell (2007). The font has a pyramidal cover that looks like the one at Gausac, also in the Val d'Aran [NB: we have no information about the inside of this cover; the one at Gausac -cf. Index entry for Gausac- is a Gothic one, beautifully painted on the inside]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.73283, 0.77632
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 43′ 58″ N, 0° 46′ 35″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (local)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 74 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Height of Base: 61 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 116 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. XIII: 444)
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Notes: on the outside it resembles the one in nearby Gausac
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
Durliat, Marcel, Pyrénées romanes, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1978
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-