Boren No. 2 / Borèn
Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image and permission from the author received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 April 2017)
Results: 3 records
animal - mammal - lion - couchant-gardant
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the author received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 April 2017)
human figure - head
Scene Description: on the left corner of the front side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the author received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 April 2017)
view of stoup in context
Scene Description: located to the left of the doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lander Sarasola, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2016 by Lander Sarasola
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission from the author received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 April 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 08095BOR
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Martí
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 25586 Borèn, Lérida / Lleida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off the C-147, in the municipality of Alt Aneu, 5 km NW of Esterri d'Aneu, N of Sorpe, in the municipality of Alt Aneu, in the Pallars Sobirà
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgell / Diòcesi d'Urgell
Historical Region: Pallars Sobirà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted on the S side of the W doorway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font? / pica d'oli?
Cognate Fonts: oil fonts at Alos d'Isil, Arreu, etc.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lander Sarasola for his photographs of this church and stoup
Described in the Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya (1995, v. 12: 101) as a holy-water stoup ornamented with crudely rendered human faces in low relief. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 161), possibly an 'oil-font', altough the source admits that it could just as well have been originally a baptismal font, later converted to holy-water stoup, the function that it now serves mounted on a salient of the church wall. It is ornamented with a human head on the left angle of the front side of the basin; the front side has a couchant lion of the type found in nearby Son and Sorpe. This source dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) suggest a local workshop and a date in the late 12th century. [cf. Index entry for Boren No. 1 for another baptismal object in the same church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.661275,
1.082219
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 39′ 40.59″ N,
1° 4′ 55.99″ E
UTM: 31T 342827 4724984
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Basin Total Height: 26 cm* / 24 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 77 x 86 cm* / 75 x 63 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * [Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 161)] / ** [Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005)]
REFERENCES
Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya, Barcelona: Fundaciò Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1982-1985
Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
