Arres No. 1 / Arrés / Arres de Jos / Arres Dessus / Arres de Sus
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "ermita de Sant Fabià i Sant Sebastià", said to date originally from the 11thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Municois Catalans, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014, in Municipis Catalans [http://municipiscatalans.com/inici/Alt.Pirineu.i.Aran/La.Val.dAran/Arres/arres_358.html] [accessed 23 July 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: the Església de Sant Joan i Sant Peir [mitj], located in the middle btween Arres de Jos and Arres Dessus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Municois Catalans, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2014, in Municipis Catalans [http://municipiscatalans.com/inici/Alt.Pirineu.i.Aran/La.Val.dAran/Arres/arres_358.html] [accessed 23 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 1999 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02398ARR
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Joan i Sant Peir [mitj]
Church Patron Saints: St. John & St. Peter
Church Location: 25551 Arres, Lerida / Lleida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: In the Val d'Aran
Historical Region: Valle de Arán / Val d'Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: formerly there were two Romanesque churches here, Sant Joan [Arres de Sus, destroyed] and Sant Fabian [Arres de Jos], the latter replaced in the 18thC by the present Sant Joan i Sant Peir, located between Arres de Sus and Arres de Jos
On-site notes: the first of two unremarkable fonts in this church, this one being totally plain; its shape is not too different from the other's, except that the conical lower base of the other is in this one roughly a plain hemispere. [NB: we are unable to ascertain which church each font originally came from, but they both located in the middle church now].
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm
Basin Depth: 25 cm
Height of Basin Side: 20-21 cm
Basin Total Height: 44 cm
Height of Base: 55 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no