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
Font ID: 02608TAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Serni
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Saturninus of Toulouse [aka Saturnin, Sernin, Sirnin]
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
Church Address: Carrer Esglesia-anserall, 25798, Lérida / Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-145, in the Alt Urgell, 2 km NW of La Seu de Urgell
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Merce Rota Sierra for her photographs of this church and objects
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 373067 4693429
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.382778, 1.458056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 22′ 58″ N, 1° 27′ 29″ E
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, p. 31
- Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 145
- Thomas, Charles, Christianity in Roman Britain to A.D. 500, London: B.T. Batsford, 1981, vol. V: 130