Alos d'Isil No. 3 / Alós d'Isil
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02602ALO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century, Early Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font / pica d'oli
Cognate Fonts: Several other such fonts in the Val d'Aran, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Lliser
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Licerio (?)
Church Address: Alós, Plaça Major, 1, 25586 Alós d'Isil, Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Alós d'Isil is off the C-147 in the Aneu area of the Pallars Sobirà, Lerida.
Font Notes:
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The second, and the worst preserved, of two "oil fonts" in this church (Mestre i Godes, 1999)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 344375 4729374
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.7011, 1.0999
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 42′ 3.96″ N, 1° 5′ 59.64″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 99