Tredos No. 5 / Tredòs / Cap d'Aran
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02612CAP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-06-18
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Vall d'Aran font / oil font / pica d'oli
Cognate Fonts: Several such fonts found in the former diocese of Comminges
Church / Chapel Name: Santa Maria de Cap d’Aran / Era Mare de Diu de Cap d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted, under the stairs to the choir
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: There are three baptismal fonts and one water stoup in this church, all of them from the Middle Ages. Access to these churches is at present [1998-1999] erratic, usually difficult if not impossible outside the reduced hours of service, partly because the few clergy are stretched over several parishes, but also because some of them [there are notable exceptions to whom BAPTISTERIA SACRA is most grateful] do not favour the opening of these churches to visitors, nor are some of the key-holders [ditto re exceptions] any better inclined.
Church Address: Cami Casans,dels;Ag. Tredos, 5, 25598 Tredós, Lérida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the C-28 (at km 34) , between Salardu (WNW) and Baqueira (ESE), E of Vielha dn the N-230
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Additional Comments: recycled font / oil font: later used -as several others in this valley- as holding tanks for oil (piques d'oli=oil fonts) destined for the church lamps
Font Notes:
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Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIII: 391) as a font reused for the oil offerings. On-site notes: the object is a rectangular monolith of the type believed by some to have served for immersion baptism in the 10th or 11th centuries in the area around Comminges; this one, now cemented to the wall, has a shield-like protrusion in the middle of the front side with a Latin cross on it. This font is mentioned in Mestre i Godes (1999: 89) (85 x 52 x 32 cm) have not been used]. This font is mentioned in Sarrate Forga (1975: unpaged) as one of two ancient immersion fonts later recycled into lamp-oil tanks, and is described in this source as plain ["sin decorar"]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 329468 4729898
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.70266, 0.91785
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 42′ 9.58″ N, 0° 55′ 4.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Rim Thickness: 12-13 cm
Basin Depth: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 58-65 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 45-47 x 95 cm (inside); 106-109 x 65-70 cm (outs.)
Notes on Measurements: BSI [Measurement ranges due to the object's irregular construction] [NB: Mestre i Godes (1999: 89) gives 85x52x32 cm]
REFERENCES
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XIII: 391
- Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 89
- Sarrate Forga, José, Arte románico en el Cap d'Aran. El, Lérida: [El Autor], 1975, unpaged