Cerbi No. 1 / Cervi

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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 12

Scene Description: three per compartment

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

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

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

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

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

Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces

inscription - detail

Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces

inscription - detail

Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces

view of basin

Scene Description: the basin of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel in both pieces

view of basin - interior

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 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 church exterior - southeast view

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]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: the belfry at the southwest end of the church

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]

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view of church exterior - west façade

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]

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view of church interior - nave - chapel

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

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 font and cover

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view of font base

Scene Description: the stem of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel

view of font base

Scene Description: the lower base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel

view of font base

Scene Description: the lower base of the now [June 2012] dismantled base, showing the drainage channel

view of font in context

Scene Description: the now [June 2012] dismantled font is visble on the ground, through the railing

INFORMATION

FontID: 08098CER

Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Sant Serni [aka Sant Sadurní]

Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus of Toulouse [aka Saturnin, Sernin, Sirnin]

Church Location: Placeta de l'Església, Cervi / Cervi, La Guingueta d'Àneu, Lérida / Lleida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in an anexed chamber, behind a railing

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: The font at nearby Gavàs is similar, though not identical

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

Church Notes: church listed in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya [ref.: 25483]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.647, 1.1495

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 38′ 49.2″ N, 1° 8′ 58.2″ E

UTM: 31T 348306 4723276

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

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-