Gausac No. 2 / Gausach / Gaussac
Results: 4 records
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: around the lower edge of the basin
view of stoup
view of stoup in context
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02615GAU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The stoup at Escunhau, Begos and Mont, all in the Vall d'Aran
Church / Chapel Name: Església Parroquial de Sant Martí
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted at the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: There is a beautiful sculpture of Christ on the cross (12-13th cent.) in the porch, on the right wall of the bell tower [image available on a colour slide in the BSI archives, Gaussac file].
Church Address: 25538 Gausac, Lérida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Gausac is located off (W) the N-230, WNW of Mijaran, in the Vall d'Aran, WNW of Vielha
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran / Val d'Aran
Additional Comments: recycled stoup?
Font Notes:
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Described in Mestre i Godes (1999) as a late 12th-century wall-mounted roughly-cylindrical holy-water stoup ornamented with vegetal motifs and wall-mounted at the entrance of this church. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ), where it is dated to the 12th century and suggested that it may have been a piece recycled from an earlier church. Noted in Amiell (2007).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montse Rota Serra for her photographs of this stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 319193 4730697
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.7075, 0.792222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 42′ 27″ N, 0° 47′ 32″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (composite)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, wall-mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 37 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 52 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 27 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. XIII: 431)
REFERENCES
- Amiell, Josep M., "Piques baptismal de la Val d'Aran", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 32-35; p. 33
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XIII: 431-432
- Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 75