Salardu No. 1 / Salardú
Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
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design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: Several such on the front side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2010 by Javier Torrens for BSI
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symbol - cross - Latin - pattée
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2010 by Javier Torrens for BSI
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symbol - letter - M?
Scene Description: Lower-case "m"?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2010 by Javier Torrens for BSI
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view of church exterior - east end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2021 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2021)
view of church exterior - east end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2021 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2021)
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ainhoa, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2006 by Ainhoa [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Andreu_de_Salardú.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 February 2012 by Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Andreu_de_Salardú01.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 February 2012 by Enrique López-Tamayo Biosca [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Andreu_de_Salardú02.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pan-JIM, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph [edited for lens distorsion] taken 11 September 2012 by Pan-JIM [www.panoramio.com/photo/81339797] [accessed 18 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2021 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2021)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the bell tower was added in the 15th century
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ainhoa, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2006 by Ainhoa [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Andrèu_de_Salardú.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2014]
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: added in the 15thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2021 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2021)
view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xevi V, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2012 by Xevi V [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esglesia_de_Sant_Andreu_de_Salardú_(Naut_Aran)_-_1.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jqmj (Queralt), 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2010 by jqmj (Queralt) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Andreu_de_Salardú_-_interior.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2014]
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view of church interior - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2021 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2021)
view of object
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Isaías Gonzalo Solís, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2014)
view of object - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Isaías Gonzalo Solís, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2014)
view of object in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2010 by Javier Torrens for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
view of object in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Isaías Gonzalo Solís, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2012 by Isaías Gonzalo Solís
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02610SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Andrèu / Sant Andreu / Sant Andrieu
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Plaça de l'església, 25598 Salardú, Vall d'Aran, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Salardú is located in the municipality of Naut Aran, about 10 km E of Vielha / Viella
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida
Historical Region: Terçó de Pujòlo -- Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted on the south wall, to the left of the door
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Vall d'Aran font / oil font / pica d'oli
Cognate Fonts: Other such fonts in the former diocese of Comminges
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Javier Torrens, to Isaías Gonzalo Solís and to Julia Guerra for their photographs of this church and object
Font Notes:
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One of the Vall d'Aran's early "immersion" fonts, some of which are called "oil fonts" for their use as containers for the lighting/heating [tithe/offering?] oil for the church. Ornamented with a Latin cross, a small letter "m" and some hemispheric motifs (Mestre i Godes, 1999). Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ), where a dating to the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century is suggested. This same source mentions also the possibility that it might actually be a sarcophagus. Noted in Amiell (2007) [cf. Index entries for Vielha, Unha and Cap d'Aran for others of the same type] [NB: there are many such objects in this valley, some identified as sarcofagi, some as "immersion" fonts; it is difficult to describe these small objects as "immersion" fonts and it is not clear whether or not they are even baptismal fonts, especially considering that many are dated as contemporary of the chalice-shaped fonts in the same churches].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.70751, 0.90199
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 27.04″ N, 0° 54′ 7.16″ E
UTM: 31T 328183 4730469
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Basin Total Height: 44 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 44 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 107 x 58 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. XIII: 376)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: It is not really known whether this is meant to be the letter "M" or not; it just happens to resemble it
Inscription Location: front side
Inscription Text: "m"
Inscription Source: Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. XIII: 376)
REFERENCES
Amiell, Josep M., "Piques baptismal de la Val d'Aran", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 32-35; p. 32
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