Fenouillet No. 2 / Fenolhet

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as one of three Romanesque capitals re-used in the new church; this one, in white marble and decorated with facing lions, serves as holy-water stoup. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XXV: 313, 344-345):composite holy-water stoup consisting of four parts: the basin is roughly hemispherical and decorated with a horizontal groove all around the side. The base is made of three parts: the lower base, a marble pedestal in the common shape of torus-scotia-torus combination; the next piece up is a plain cylindrical stem; the final piece, just below the basin, is the recycled capital believed to be originally from the old castle church of Saint-Pierre / Saint Pèir: it is made of white marble and beautifully carved with a pair of rampant lions on each side, each head of the lion at a corner thereby serving to the body on either side and a total of only four heads to the eight bodies; the lower edge of the capital is a roll moulding. Catalunya romànica (ibid.) dates it to the second half of the 12th century and, like the another capital now built into the porch, associated stylistically to the traditional Romanesque production of the Roussillon workshop of Cuixà.