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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: the back of the basin is wall-mounted; it appears that the ornamentation continues on the hidden part

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design element - motifs - circle - concentric

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

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Scene Description: a spherical shape ["forma gairebé esfèrica"]

symbol - cross - Latin

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symbol - shell

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02300CAS

Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Marti / Iglesia de San Martín de Castellars [orig. from the monastery at Lavaix]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours [formerly dedicated to St. Felix?]

Church Location: Castellars, El Pont de Suert, Lérida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located off the LV-5212, 2 km NW of Malpàs, in the municipality and 7 km E of El Pont de Suert

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida

Historical Region: Malpàs, Alta Ribagorza

Font Location in Church: Located [2003] inside the church at Castellars, wall-mounted on the N side of the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela and to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of Barcelona, Spain, for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: Romanesque church now much modified

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Described in Buron (1980: 27) as an interesting Romanesque baptismal font with diverse ornamental motifs carved on the stone surfaces. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVI: 171-172), where it is reported that popular belief has this font arriving in Castellars at the time of the mid-19th century secularization of church land under Mendizábal; the font is reported half-built into the wall, which has hidden some of the ornamental motifs on its sides; the basin is between cylindrical and hemispherical and does not have any indication of ever having had any base support;.the basin sides are decorated with an arcade of round arches containing the following motifs [L-->R]: 1)Latin cross (only half of it visible); 2) shell ["petxina"]; 3)Latin cross; 4)concentric circles; 5)Latin Cross. Recent information [received March 2003] confirms that the font now at the church of St. Martin in Castellars was originally from the monastery at Lavaix, now under the waters of a dam.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.414153, 0.809656

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 24′ 50.95″ N, 0° 48′ 34.76″ E

UTM: 31T 319778 4698085

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (wall-mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm

Basin Total Height: 46 cm

Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVI: 171)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: conical cover of the "rim-buffet" type: hinged doors open to give access to the inside of the well

REFERENCES

Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-