Perelada / Peralada
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inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2003 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2003 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: Source caption: "Clocher de l'église Saint Martin, Peralada (Haut-Ampurdan, Catalogne, Espagne)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bertrand Grondin, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2014 by Bertrand Grondin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peralada_2014_07_27_13_M6.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Nef et abside de l'église Saint Martin, Peralada (Haut-Ampurdan, Catalogne, Espagne)" -- showing the old font at the far [east] end, left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1221220004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef et abside de l'église Saint Martin, Peralada (Haut-Ampurdan, Catalogne, Espagne)" -- showing the old font at the far [east] end, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bertrand Grondin, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 27 July 2014 by Bertrand Grondin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peralada_2014_07_27_04_M8.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2022]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2003 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2003 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2003 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MarisaLR, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 30 April 2006 by MarisaLR [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_bautismal_s.XI-XII.jpg.JPG] [accessed 15 March 2010
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abside de l'église Saint Martin, Peralada (Haut-Ampurdan, Catalogne, Espagne)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bertrand Grondin, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 July 2014 by Bertrand Grondin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peralada_2014_07_27_07_M8.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08117PER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Martí de Perelada
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Plaça de l'Esglesia, 16, 17491 Peralada, Girona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 972 67 81 21
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off the C-252, 3-4 km NE of Figueras/Figueres, in the Alt Empordà region
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona
Historical Region: Alt Empordà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Joan de Jonquera?
Cognate Fonts: A common type of font in this area of the Pyrenees, either plain or with various types of ornamentation
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: original 9thC church; re-built and consecrated 1208; expanded 14thC; present church late-18thC
Font Notes:
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The cauldron-type (hemispherical unmounted) baptismal font at Perelada is very common in this area of the Pyrenees, both in Spain and France; examples such as Ur, Castellò d'Empuries, etc. all share a common basin design, each then adding a different program of ornamentation [or, in the case of Castellò, a double basin]. This font has two inscriptions, one at the upper basin side, the other on the side, lower down, both running in capitals between horizontal parallel incised lines; a third set of lines is located around the underbowl but it does not include an inscription. The second inscription includes the name of the maker of the font 'Johannes' [Joan of Jonquera?] as well as other text, but no date. Two iron staples from the old cover are still evident in the upper rim. The font is fair shape, but there are spots of damage affecting the text of the inscription as well as a purposefully-made vertical groove at the upper basin side, also affecting the text of the inscription. Noted in Badia-Homs (2007).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.308376, 3.00846
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 18′ 30.16″ N, 3° 0′ 30.46″ E
UTM: 31T 500697 4684016
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: Full transcription not available
Inscription Location: in two bands, around the upper and middle sides of the basin
Inscription Text: 1)"[...] + [alpha omega] + QUOS LAVAT HIC [...] PATER [...]"
2)"[...] IOH[an]NES : ME FECIT + CRI [...]"
Inscription Source: Images below
LID INFORMATION
Notes: iron staples of the old cover still in the upper rim