Casteil No. 1 / Castell de Vernet
Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2019
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stanislav Doronenko, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2014 by Stanislav Doronenko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Martin-le-Vieux,_Casteil_01.jpg] [accessed 11 December 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 05872CAS
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin-le-Vieux [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: 65 D Chemin de Saint-Martin, 66820 Casteil, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off the D27, 1-2 km S of Vernet-les-Bains, 6 km SSE of Vilefranche-de-Conflent -- The abbey of St-Martin du Canigou is nearby
Historical Region: Conflent-Canigou
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photograph of this font
Church Notes: the church of 'Sant Marti lo Vell' was abandoned in the mid-17thC, and the 15thC oratory in the centre of the village became parish church instead -- Old St Martin was restored in the 1970s
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of a plain, roughly hemispeherical basin raised on a round pedestal base; crude irregular work. No cover present. [NB: in November 2019 BSI received photographs of two different fonts labelled "Casteil, France"; the photographs appear to have been taken by the same person on the same date; there are two churches in Casteil but we have not yet been able to identify which font belongs to which church, but an educated guess would put the font dated "1650" on the rim in the 17th-century church, and the plain tub in the old church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 31′ 55″ N,
2° 24′ 4″ E
UTM: 31T 450249 4709013
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining