Son No. 1 / Son del Pino / Sonne

Main image for Son No. 1 / Son del Pino / Sonne

Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016

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

Results: 15 records

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)

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 - 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)

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)

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 - 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 - 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 - 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)

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)

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)

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)

view of church exterior - southeast view

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 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)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02329SON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Just i Sant Pastor / Iglesia Parroquial de San Justo y San Pastor
Church Patron Saints: St. Justus & St. Pastor
Church Location: Son, 25589 Lerida / Lleida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
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 Location in Church: In the baptistery chapel, N side of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lander Sarasola for his photographs of this church and fonts
Church Notes: church here documented 1076; restored 2014-2015
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.

COORDINATES

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

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
Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999
Trepat, Roser, Conjunt monumental de Son, Lleida: Consell Cultural de les Valls d'Àneu, 1993