Queralbs / Kerosalbos

Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2004

Image and permission received (e-mail of June 5, 2004)

Results: 4 records

B01: symbol - cross - Latin - anchored

Scene Description: on the front of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2004

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B02: design element - motifs - wave

Scene Description: a sinuous line all around the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2004

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of June 5, 2004)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian & Gill Smith

Image Source: digital photograph by Adrian & Gill Smith

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permssion received from the authors (e-mail of 18/5/2004)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2004

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of June 5, 2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09611QUE
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Jaume
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Carrer de L'Església, 10, 17534 Queralbs, Girona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located 20 km N of Ripoll
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta of www.claustro.com, and to Adrian and Gill Smith for the photographs of this font
Church Notes: church built 978; modified late-11thC and later
Baptismal font locally dated to the 11th century; it consists of a hemispherical basin, apparently of coarse-grain granite, decorated with a Latin cross at the front, and with a sinuous line all around; this basin is raised on a quadrangular pedestal of two volumes, the lower one a little wider. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/Queralbs.pdf] [accessed 24 November 2024] does not mention a font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.348502, 2.161237
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 20′ 54.61″ N, 2° 9′ 40.45″ E
UTM: 31T 430916 4688812

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite? (basin only)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round