Tabernolas No. 1 / Anserall / San Saturnino de Tavérnolas / Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles / Sant Serni de Tavernolès / Tabérnolas / Tavernoles / Tavérnolas / Tavèrnoles

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Results: 12 records

design element - architectural - arch - round arch - 4

Scene Description: each containing a cross symbol

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Merce Rota Serra

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Merce Rota Serra

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Merce Rota Serra

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information

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information

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Image Source: digital photograph January 2023 by Merce Rota Serra

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symbol - cross - Latin - 4

Scene Description: each under an arch

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church interior - apse

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view of church interior - painting - detail

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view of font or stoup in context

Scene Description: located by the entranceway, therefore more likely a stoup, or used as one

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02607TAV
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Serni
Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus of Toulouse [aka Saturnin, Sernin, Sirnin]
Church Location: Carrer Esglesia-anserall, 25798, Lérida / Lleida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off the N-145, in the Alt Urgell, 2 km NW of La Seu de Urgell
Font Location in Church: Inside the the church, to the right of the entrance
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Merce Rota Sierra for her photographs of this church and objects
Church Notes: may have been originaly a 6thC Visigothic monastery; became Bendictine in the late 8thC; enlarged 10th and 11thC; monastery suppressed 1592, church becoming parochial of Anserall; monastery restored 1971
Described in Mestre i Godes (1999: 143); described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. VI: 130): baptismal font probably of the Romanesque period, likely a composite piece; the basin is roughly bucket-shaped, the sides slightly rounded, and ornamented with a roll moulding at either end, top and bottom; in between appear, towards the lower part, four round arches, each containing a Latin cross; the pedestal base, clearly made of a different stone, is cylindrical with what appears as leaf ornamentation on the upper part and two parallel roll mouldings towards the middle. [cf. Index entry for Tavernoles No. 2 for another font in this same church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.382778, 1.458056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 22′ 58″ N, 1° 27′ 29″ E
UTM: 31T 373067 4693429

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48 cm*
Height of Base: 80 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 128 cm* [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. VI: 130)

REFERENCES

Catalunya romànica 4: l'Alt Urgell, Andorra, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1999
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