Cerbi No. 1 / Cervi
Results: 23 records
view of basin and base
Scene Description: the basin and the stem of the base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage chanel in both pieces
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
inscription - detail
![the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729045_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces
inscription - detail
![the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729044_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces
view of basin - interior
inscription - detail
![the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729038_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces
view of basin
![the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces
design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 12
Scene Description: three per compartment
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
design element - motifs - moulding or piping - 4
Scene Description: dividing the sides of the basin into four compartments
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 19 July 2004)
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedraferit, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 June 2012 by Pedraferit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Façana_occidental_de_Sant_Serni_de_Cerbi.JPG] [accessed 29 July 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: the belfry at the southwest end of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedraferit, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2012 by Pedraferit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campanar_de_Sant_Serni_de_Cerbi.JPG] [accessed 29 July 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedraferit, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2012 by Pedraferit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Serni_de_Cerbi_des_del_sud.JPG] [accessed 29 July 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
![the now [June 2012] dismantled font is visble on the ground, through the railing](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729033_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the now [June 2012] dismantled font is visble on the ground, through the railing
view of church interior - nave - chapel
![a chapel off the north side of the nave; it contains the now [June 2012] dismantled font](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729032_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a chapel off the north side of the nave; it contains the now [June 2012] dismantled font
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font base
![the stem of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the stem of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel
view of font base
![the lower base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the lower base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel
view of font base
![the lower base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180729040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the lower base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: [source unknown]
Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08098CER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Gavàs is similar, though not identical
Church / Chapel Name: Església parroquial de Sant Serni [aka Sant Sadurní]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an anexed chamber, behind a railing
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Saturninus of Toulouse [aka Saturnin, Sernin, Sirnin]
Church Notes: church listed in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya [ref.: 25483]
Church Address: Placeta de l'Església, Cervi / Cervi, La Guingueta d'Àneu, Lérida / Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Guingueta d'Aneu, in the Pallars Sobirà (follow the C-127 N for 3 km to Esterri; there, turn right on a road that leads to Unarre; past Unarre, at the forking of the road, follow the left to Cerbi
Historical Region: Pallars Sobirà
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 239) as probably a local work, especially since the nearby church of Sant Esteva de Gavàs has a similar, though not identical, font; it is of difficult dating because this style was popular and carried through centuries. The basin is cylindrical and rather on the shallow side, like many of the basins in the nearby Val d'Aran; roll moulding at top and bottom; between them, an framed by four vertical mouldings of the same type, are included twelve encircled 6-petal floral motifs, three in each compartment; these motifs differ from the ones at Gavàs by being smaller and with petals on the vertical axis; the base appears to be a roughly square pedestal on a square lower base, both plain. Described in the Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya (1995, v. 12: 106) as an ancient stone baptismal font ornamented with incised motifs. Although neither of these sources mention it, or give details of, there is an inscription adorned with Greek crosses on the upper surface of the rim [transcription not available]. Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) suggest a date in the late 12th or early 13th century, attributable to a local workshop. Listed and illustrated in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic. Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural de la Generalitat de Catalunya [http://invarquit.cultura.gencat.cat] [accessed 29 July 2018]. [NB: a series of photographs of this font were taken in June 2012 by Azucena Povill; the images show the font in a chapel off the north side of the nave, locked behind a railing; the three pieces of the font (basin, stem and lower base) are on the ground].
[cf. Index entries for Cerbi Nos. 2 and 3 for two other objects listed for this church]
[cf. Index entries for Cerbi Nos. 2 and 3 for two other objects listed for this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for the photographs of this font; Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 348306 4723276
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.647, 1.1495
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 38′ 49.2″ N, 1° 8′ 58.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers and letters
Inscription Location: on the upper surface of the rim
Inscription Text: [transcription not available]
Inscription Source: [cf. ImageArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain flat wooden lid; the staples in the rim are the original ones
REFERENCES
- Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya, Barcelona: Fundaciò Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1982-1985, vol. 12: p. 106
- Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005, p. 172
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XV: p. 239