Alos d'Isil No. 1 / Alós d'Isil

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B01: animal - mammal - quadruped

Scene Description: several, perhaps a rabbit among them

Image Source: photograph in the Centre d'Art Romànic Català

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B02: animal - bird - head

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BBU01: design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: circles, piping, etc.

Image Source: photograph in the Centre d'Art Romànic Català

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Image Source: digital photograph in www.romanicat.net

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02600ALO

Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Lliser

Church Patron Saints: St. Licerio (?)

Church Location: Alós, Plaça Major, 1, 25586 Alós d'Isil, Lleida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Alós d'Isil is located off the C-147 in the Aneu valley area of the Pallars Sobirà, Lerida.

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for her photograph of the church exterior

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Mestre i Godes (1999) as a font ornamented with animal and vegetal motifs. Described in Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) with date in the late 12th or early 13th century, with some similarities in style and choice of decorative topics with the oil font at the Església de Sant Llorenç in Isavarre. Round basin raised on a pedestal base made up of three parts; the basin has a thick roll moulding below the upper rim, with a number of quadrupeds and avian heads (?) on the sides and underbowl, all very worn and of difficult identification; CM&P (ibid.) suggest one may be a rabbit; raised on a pedestal base made up of a round column with square capital and base. All very crude and irregular, probably the work of a local mason.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.7011, 1.0999

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 3.96″ N, 1° 5′ 59.64″ E

UTM: 31T 344375 4729374

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm*

Notes on Measurements: Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005)

REFERENCES

Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005

Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999