Abella de la Conca No. 1 / Abella

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Results: 5 records

human figure - unidentified

Scene Description: seeveral, all around the basin sides

Image Source: edited image of a B&W photograph "Placa de vidre estereoscòpica, 6x13 cm. Fons Salvany SaP_551_05" taken in 1920 by Josep Salvany i Blanch [http://mdc.cbuc.cat/cdm/singleitem/collection/bcsalvany/id/6121/rec/65] [accessed 1 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Gustau Erill i Pinyot [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abella_de_la_Conca._Sant_Esteve_13.JPG] [acc essed 1 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: as seen from the entrance to the village

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Gustau Erill i Pinyot [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abella_de_la_Conca._Sant_Esteve_1.JPG] [acc essed 1 June 2013]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Gustau Erill i Pinyot [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abella_de_la_Conca._Sant_Esteve_6.JPG] [acc essed 1 June 2013]

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08215ABE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Sant Esteve / Iglesia parroquial de San Esteban

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located E of Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà (follow the road from Tremp to Isona; at Isona follow the local road [L-511] to Abella -- left at the forking)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel

Historical Region: Pallars Jussà

Font Location in Church: [unknown]

Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: the church here is documented since the late 11thC, and replaced an earlier church located in the nearby castle -- the Gothic retable of ca.1375 by Pere Serra is now located in the Museo Diocesano de Urgel, and the 15thc La Pietat retable is at the Museu de la Conca Dellà [NB: the old castle is now in ruins, up in the north side of the village] -- mural paintings were discovered [un-covered?] in 2011] -- church illustrated in www.romanicat.net/espanol/inventario_iglesias/abella_conca/abella_conca_esp.htm [accessed 1 June 2013]

Font Notes: Click to view

Celina Llarás Usón, in her introductory essay on "L'escultura monumental" of the Pallars region, in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 99) refers to a baptismal font at Sant Esteve d'Abella as one of thirteen studied in this volume, but no entry for the font is found in the monographic entry for Abella de la Conca. The font, as seen in a 1920 photograph by Josep Salvany now in the Biblioteca de Catalunya [http://mdc.cbuc.cat/cdm/singleitem/collection/bcsalvany/id/6121/rec/65] [accessed 1 June 2013], consists of a cylindrical basin deeply carved with human figures, a coarse work. [NB: no font mentioned in www.romanicat.net [accessed 1 June 2013]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.160983, 1.091936

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 9′ 39.54″ N, 1° 5′ 30.97″ E

UTM: 31T 4669412 342375

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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