Arles-sur-Tech / Arles de Tec

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: Very regular work

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: blocked drain hole

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: part of a paleo-Christian sarcophagus?

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 façade

Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

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 exterior - east façade - window

Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

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

Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

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 portal - detail

Scene Description: left side [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

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 - detail

Scene Description: right side [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

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 - tympanum

Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - east portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: [NB: this church is oriented to the west]

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 interior - detail

Scene Description: Green Man?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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 church interior - painting

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]

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 font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: wall-mounted; date unknown

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03923ARL

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [aka ancienne abbatiale Notre Dame / Abadia de Santa Maria / ancienne abbatiale Sainte-Marie]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 66150 Arles-sur-Tech, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located 10 kms WSW of Céret

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Perpignan-Elne

Historical Region: Vallée du Tech -- Vallespir -- Roussillon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

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]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.456111, 2.634722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 27′ 22″ N, 2° 38′ 5″ E

UTM: 31T 469980 4700505

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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; r["References"]

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-