Arboussols / Arbocols / Arboçols / Arbusolas

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2016 by Montserrat Rota

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the abandoned church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2016 by Montserrat Rota

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)

view of church interior

Scene Description: the abandoned church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2016 by Montserrat Rota

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the abandoned church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2016 by Montserrat Rota

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 08179ARB

Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Eulalie / Església de Santa Eulàlia [abandoned church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida

Church Location: 66320 Arboussols, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located E of the D619, in the municipality of Arboussols, 3.5 km N of Marquixanes up the D-35

Historical Region: Conflent-Canigó

Font Location in Church: Inside the abandoned church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Rota for her photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. VII: 304-305) as a monolithic tub-shaped basin of the 11th or 12th century in the now abandoned church; the basin is hemispherical and made of granite. [NB: this source (ibid. [ca. 1995 for vol. VII]) extends a wise recommendation to have the abandoned font secured to the gound to avoid its disappearance]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.67, 2.49

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 40′ 12″ N, 2° 29′ 24″ E

UTM: 31T 458209 4724296

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: hemispheric

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 99 cm [calculated]

Diameter (includes rim): 113 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. VII: 304-305)

REFERENCES

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