Escunyau No. 2 / Escunhau / Escuñau

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02395ESC

Church/Chapel: Sant Pere / Sant Pèir / San Pedro

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Camin Bosc d'Arto Costa, 30, 25539 Escunhau, Lleida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: In the Vall d'Aran, 2.5 kms E of Vielha on the Bonaigua road

Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the entrance

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

Cognate Fonts: Gausac / Gaussac

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a Romanesque holy-water stoup of the 13th century; the cylindrical basin has an elegant vine motif covering the sides; below it, a rope moulding under which the stone has been cut in a chamfer to meet the base. On-site notes: the basin is a typical work of the Aran Romanesque; the base, probably redone later, is square but recut in a round pattern at the top to meet the underbowl [NB: the basin appeared unmounted in the illustration in Catalunya romànica of ca. 1984, but it was mounted as shown in our photograph in June 1999]. Listed in Mestre i Godes (1999). Noted in Amiell (2007).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.69661, 0.825073

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41′ 47.8″ N, 0° 49′ 30.26″ E

UTM: 31T 321852 4729418

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (local)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 28 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 43-44 cm *[41 cm]

Basin Depth: 12 cm

Height of Basin Side: 20 cm

Basin Total Height: 25 cm *[24 cm]

Height of Base: 67 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 29 x 35 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[Catalunya rom... (1984- , v. XIII: 418)]

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

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; r["References"]

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