Peramea / San Cristòbal de Peramea / Sant Cristòfol de Peramea

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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned - enthroned - holding star? - star

Scene Description: there is something looking like a possible crown on the Madonna's head; she holds an object in her right hand; is it a star?; there is a star above her left shoulder

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette?

Scene Description: in the left spandrel here

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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human figure - haloed?

Scene Description: was it a haloed human figure? the carving much eroded / worn

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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human figure - head - 2

Scene Description: two human heads are visible here in the centre and right spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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human figure - head - Moor - negroid features

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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human figure - head - Moor - negroid features - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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human figure - head - Moor - negroid features - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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human figure - standing - unidentified

Scene Description: in the right arch here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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sacrament - baptism - infant baptism - in a raised font

Scene Description: the bearded priest (?) pours water from a round vessel on the head of a baptizand that is in the raised font; the two adjacent figures are probably part of the ceremony

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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unidentified

Scene Description: in the space to the left of the large head

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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unidentified

Scene Description: in the space to the right of the large head, beneath the large ear; perhaps a person carrying a candle?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of basin

Scene Description: the side right of the large head

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: plain surface with centre drain

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2008 by jqmj (Queralt) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Església_parroquial_de_Sant_Cristòfol_(Baix_Pallars)_-_1.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2020]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photogragraph taken 15 July 2011 by Xevi V [www.flickr.com/photos/29624180@N04/8036310031] [accessed 14 August 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Poble de Paramea"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2010 by Pallares1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peramea.JPG] [accessed 14 August 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2020 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2020 by Montse Rota Serra

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08093PER

Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Sant Cristòfol / Iglesia Parroquial de San Cristóbal y los Inocentes

Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher & the Holy Innocents [earlier dedicated to St. John]

Church Location: 25591 Peramea, Lérida / Lleida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located off the N-260, either through Bretui or through Pujols, in the municipality of Baix Pallars, 10 km SW of Sort, NNE of Lérida

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Lérida [earlier in the Diócesis de Seo de Urgel]

Historical Region: Baix Pallars / Pallars Sobirà

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.es, and to Montse Rota Serra for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: this church, originally dedicated to St. John, became parish church in 1398, taking over from the earlier one that was dedicated to St. Christopher

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Celina Llarás Usón, in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 99) describes this font as being ornamented with motifs drawn from the Romanesque ["té uns motius sculpits allunyats del romànic"]. Described in the Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya (1995, v. 12: 57) as a baptismal font ornamented with popular motifs and crude Gothic arches. The font appears to be monolithic, a round tapering basin carved all around, and a plain almost conical [inverted] underbowl and base; there is large protruding head on the basin, the exagerated features in the guise of a traditional medieval rendering of a Negro or Arab; the spaces immediately to the left and right have a number of carvings that are hard to read (on the right perhaps a demi-figure holding a candle; on the left, a cross?]; to both sides of these runs an arcade of trefoiled arches; three arches on the left appears to be inter-related and contain a child baptism scene, with the child in a font in the centre arch; the bearded priest(?) pours water from a round vessel onto the child(?) who stands inside a pedestal chalice-shaped font; the figure in the right arch holds a large staff or candle; some of the spandrels of the arcade have human heads, other, floral motifs; to te right of the large head, perhaps a demi-figure holding up a candle? above this is a small pattern of tracery that appears to mold into the trafoiled arch to the right; this arch is badly eroded or hacked off, but there appears to be contour of a human figure, perhaps haloed, in it; in the next arch to the right is an enthroned woman holding an infant, quite likely meant to be the Madonna and Child; she appears to be holing up an object in her right hand, the infant in her lap; in the upper right corner a star; another human figure stands in he arch to the right [NB: unfortunately the back (?) of the font is against the wall, which makes the identification of that area difficult]. There is drain hole in the inner basin, which is otherwise plain. No font cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.330381, 1.049256

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 19′ 49.37″ N, 1°2′57.32″ E

UTM: 31T 339208 4688261

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: 1

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya, Barcelona: Fundaciò Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1982-1985

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