Arres No. 2 / Arrés / Arres de Jos / Arres Dessus / Arres de Sus
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symbol - labyrinth?
Scene Description: a labyrinth? / a cross within concentric circles?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 1999 by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 1999 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02399ARR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Joan i Sant Peir [mitj]
Church Patron Saints: St. John
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
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
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: the second of two somewhat similar fonts found in this church; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with straight sides at the upper part and a rounded underbowl; on one of its sides of the underbowl is a pattern of concentric circles forming a motif which looks like a labyrinth, but is probably just a concentric pattern around a cross; the stem of the base is cylindrical and the base a truncated cone. [NB: we are unable to ascertain which church each font originally came from, but they both located in the middle church now].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 312790 4736358
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): 55-56 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 65-66 cm
Basin Depth: 23 cm
Height of Basin Side: 21 cm
Basin Total Height: 40 cm
Height of Base: 63 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no