Perpignan No. 3 / Perpinyà

Results: 5 records

design element - patterns - ribbed

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: 13th-century

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cancre, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2010 by Cancre [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral,_Perpignan_-_portal.JPG] [accessed 16 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: 13th century; Christ in Majesty by Raymond de Bianya, responsible for the funeral carvings in the cloister of Elne

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enfo, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Enfo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Joan_el_Vell,_Crist_majestat.jpg] [accessed 16 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: this side of the church is adjacent to the Gothic cathedral

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Delaney Turner [claydevoute], 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2008 by Delaney Turner [claydevoute] [www.flickr.com/photos/42266634@N02/3982454996] [accessed 16 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - tower - detail

Scene Description: showing the 18th-century brickwork raised on the medieval stone base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enfo, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by Enfo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Joan_el_Vell,_campanar.jpg] [accessed 16 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 03842PER
Church/Chapel: Eglise du Vieux-Saint-Jean
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Directions to Site: On the Atlantic coast, just N of the Spanish border. Other large fonts just 12 kms SE at Argelès; two more at Venasque and Piolenc [now missing], N of Avignon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Perpignan-Elne [anciennement diocèse d'Elne]
Historical Region: Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century?, Late Medieval
Church Notes: church originally 9th-11thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104076]
Listed in Enlart (1902) as a 15th century stoup with a star-shaped basin well; later in the same source Enlart refers to the ribbed pattern ornamentation on the inside of the basin well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.7007, 2.8968
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 2.52″ N, 2° 53′ 48.48″ E
UTM: 31T 491548 4727584

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Basin Interior Shape: star

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902