Arles-sur-Tech / Arles de Tec
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: Very regular work
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: blocked drain hole
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church exterior - cloister
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church exterior - cloister - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church exterior - east portal - tympanum
![[NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/ARL0101912_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church exterior - east portal - tympanum - detail
view of church exterior - east façade - window
view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: part of a paleo-Christian sarcophagus?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baldiri, 1990
Image Source: photograph taken January 1990 by Baldiri [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-abadia-5.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - east portal - detail
![right side [NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: right side [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by PMRMaeyaert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-sur-Tech,_Abadia_de_Santa_Maria_d'Arles_PM_47140.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - east portal - detail
![left side [NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: left side [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by PMRMaeyaert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-sur-Tech,_Abadia_de_Santa_Maria_d'Arles_PM_47139.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - east portal
![[NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hawobo, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2006 by Hawobo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-sur-Tech_5.JPG] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - east façade - window
![[NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baldiri, 1990
Image Source: photograph taken January 1990 by Baldiri [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-abadia-3.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - east portal - tympanum - detail
![[NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baldiri, 1990
Image Source: photograph taken January 1990 by Baldiri [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-abadia-4.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church exterior - east façade
![[NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baldiri, 1990
Image Source: photograph taken January 1990 by Baldiri [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-abadia-2.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Green Man?
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of stoup in context
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church interior - painting
![seraphim detail of the 12th-century fresco paintings in the Chapelle Saint-Michel, located in an apse on the east side, above the east entranceway [NB: this church is oriented to the west]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140218008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: seraphim detail of the 12th-century fresco paintings in the Chapelle Saint-Michel, located in an apse on the east side, above the east entranceway [NB: this church is oriented to the west]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MOSSOT, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by Mossot [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-sur-Tech_-_Abbaye_Sainte-Marie_-2.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by PMRMaeyaert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arles-sur-Tech,_Abadia_de_Santa_Maria_d'Arles_PM_47096.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2014]
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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view of stoup
Scene Description: wall-mounted; date unknown
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03923ARL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2001-06-18
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [aka ancienne abbatiale Notre Dame / Abadia de Santa Maria / ancienne abbatiale Sainte-Marie]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: IMPORTANT: THE CHURCH IS ORIENTED TO THE WEST, NOT THE EAST, AS IS THE NORM -- abbey originally 8thC; re-funded in 820 AD; under Cluny in 11thC; cloister is 13th-14thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00103960]
Church Address: 66150 Arles-sur-Tech, France
Site Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 10 kms WSW of Céret
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Perpignan-Elne
Historical Region: Vallée du Tech -- Vallespir -- Roussillon
Font Notes:
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Described in Delcor (1973) as a very large baptismal font ornamented with a low-relief blind arcade. Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XXV: 59) in similar terms. On-site notes: large granite basin with a wide upper rim band on which appears a very regular, well-executed blind arcade of round arches; the central drain hole is now plugged. The base is short and cylindrical and may well not be the original The font was originally in the "ancienne chapelle du rosaire", in the northwest side of the church. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM66000051]: "Cuve baptismale décorée d'arcatures. [...] granite [...] Epoque romane [...] Milieu du Moyen Age".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 469980 4700505
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.456111, 2.634722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 27′ 22″ N, 2° 38′ 5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: the hole is now sealed -- no lining
Rim Thickness: 9-12 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 90 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*
Basin Depth: 52 cm*
Basin Total Height: 79 cm*
Height of Base: 26 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 130 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site -- ** Palissy [ref.: PM66000051]
REFERENCES
- Delcor, M., "Cuves romanes et leur figuration en Roussillon, Cerdagne et Conflent", 1973, no. 4, Cahiers de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, 1973, pp. 96-109; p. 107
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XXV: 59