Ginestarre No. 1, Santa Maria

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02330GIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Santa Maria
Font Location in Church: Beneath the bell tower, W end, in a locked chamber
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Carrer Unic Ginestarre, 19, 25571 Ginestarre, Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: In the Vall de Cardós (Pallars Sobirà, Lerida), off the L-504 and a few kms. of Esterri de Cardós.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Notes:
Basin of a Romanesque baptismal font with "figures elementals" (Buron, 1980 p.260). "Ornamented with a very schematic human figure" (Mestre i Godes, 1999, p. 107). Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 180) as a baptismal font of difficult dating due to the crudeness of the work; it consists of a basin ornamented with four arches, two to each side of the iron lock of the cover, only two of which -the ones nearer the lock- containg a human figure. The roughly-cylindrical basin is set on top of a pile of stones and has a crude arrangement of wooden planks as cover.

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.596569, 1.262429
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 35′ 48″ N, 1° 15′ 45″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm
Basin Total Height: 30 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 180)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: crude lid; the front of the basin side has an iron lock from a much earlier cover

REFERENCES

  • Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980, p. 260
  • Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XV: 180
  • Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 107