Son No. 1 / Son del Pino / Sonne

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Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

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view of font

here the base appears fuller, but it not clear whether it was originally a centre shaft with three constructional colonnettes, or it is just cemented fill
Scene Description: here the base appears fuller, but it not clear whether it was originally a centre shaft with three constructional colonnettes, or it is just cemented fill
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

it breaks away to loop up around a ball (?)
Scene Description: it breaks away to loop up around a ball (?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - foliage

seen here on the right side
Scene Description: seen here on the right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

symbol - interlace - tetragram

seen here on the left
Scene Description: seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - interlace - U-shaped

the low one inverted and linked with the upper one
Scene Description: the low one inverted and linked with the upper one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - X motif

seen here on the right
Scene Description: seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2

the lower one breaks away to form a ling with the parallel moulding runing along the bottom edge of the basin
Scene Description: the lower one breaks away to form a ling with the parallel moulding runing along the bottom edge of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

seen here, passant to the left, on the right side of the basin; is that an schematic human figure in front of it?
Scene Description: seen here, passant to the left, on the right side of the basin; is that an schematic human figure in front of it?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Source caption: "Son a l'Alt Àneu vist des del nord"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Son a l'Alt Àneu vist des del nord"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cornelia Bohl Smolders, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Cornelia Bohl Smolders [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Son_a_l'Alt_Àneu.JPG] [accessed 16 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - retable

Soure caption: "Retaule de l'església de Sant Just i Sant Pastor de Son (Alt Àneu, Pallars Sobirà). Obra gòtica de Pere Espallargues (segle XV)"
Scene Description: Soure caption: "Retaule de l'església de Sant Just i Sant Pastor de Son (Alt Àneu, Pallars Sobirà). Obra gòtica de Pere Espallargues (segle XV)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amadalvarez, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 17 June 2006 by Amadalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Son-SantJust-Pastor-1207.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of base

was the central column whole but later damaged?
Scene Description: was the central column whole but later damaged?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - patterns - torsade

on one of the outer colonnettes of the base
Scene Description: on one of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

on two of the colonnettes of the base
Scene Description: on two of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

on one of the colonnettes of the base
Scene Description: on one of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 August 2016)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02329SON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Església Parroquial de Sant Just i Sant Pastor / Iglesia Parroquial de San Justo y San Pastor
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery chapel, N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Justus & St. Pastor
Church Notes: church here documented 1076; restored 2014-2015
Church Address: Son, 25589 Lerida / Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Son is a small hamlet located 3 km SW of Esterri d'Aneu, in the Pallars Sobirà region of Catalonia, just S-E of the vall d'Aran, past the Bonaigua mountain port
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran / Pallars Sobirà
Font Notes:
Font illustrated in Buron (1980). Described in Mestre i Godes (1999) and in Roser Trepat's Conjunt monumental de Son, in the Quaderns de l'Ecomuseu de les Valls d'Àneu no. 2, 1993; the latter describes it as crude and probably the work of a local artist, as well as being similar to several such fonts in the nearby Vall d'Aran [cf. several such entries in the Index]. Dating is estimated as 12th century. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 151-152) where it is given the same estimated dating. Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) suggest similarities with the fonts at Sorpe and Escalarre, all attributable to a local rural workshop of the late 12th or early 13th century. Large round granite basin, not very deep, with narrow vertical sides; the sides have a double roll moulding at the upper rim; the lower of these these lines makes a U-shaped loop that links with a similar loop from the parallel moulding that runs around the lower side of the basin; the sides themselves are ornamented with foliage and at least one large tetragram and a four legged animal with a tail, and perhaps a sketchy human figure in front of it; the base consists of a broad plain cylindrical column at the centre and three more slender ones outside; these smaller columns have each a different set of ornamental motifs. The whole is made of coarse granite. The font cover is a crude half-dome cover that appears to be made of concentrical wooden rings; there is at least one old metal staple in the upper rim from an earlier cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lander Sarasola for his photographs of this church and fonts

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 343904 4720472
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.620881, 1.096597
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 37′ 15.17″ N, 1° 5′ 47.75″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: four?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 151) *[these measurements are given simply as "85 x 115 cm", but the font is obviously wider than it is tall] -- [NB: Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) give the diameter as 183 cm]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: Round wooden half-dome cover built of concentrical rings decreasing in size towards the top, with two handles, one at top the other on the side

REFERENCES

  • Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980, ill. on p. 263
  • Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005, 103-104
  • Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XV: 151-152
  • Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 95
  • Trepat, Roser, Conjunt monumental de Son, Lleida: Consell Cultural de les Valls d'Àneu, 1993, p. 36-37