Tabernolas No. 2 / Anserall / San Saturnino de Tavérnolas / Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles / Sant Serni de Tavernolès / Tabérnolas / Tavernoles / Tavérnolas / Tavèrnoles
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02608TAV
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 church, in the N transept
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
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Described in Mestre i Godes (1999: 145); described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. VI: 130): plain tub-shaped basin mounted on a modern base; the basin appears Romanesque. No cover present.
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
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 12.5-13 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 81.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 107 cm*
Basin Depth: 43.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 53 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. VI: 130)
REFERENCES
Catalunya romànica 4: l'Alt Urgell, Andorra, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1999
Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999
Thomas, Charles, Christianity in Roman Britain to A.D. 500, London: B.T. Batsford, 1981