Prat del Campanar

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan Simon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2007 by Joan Simon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:01_SANT_ANDREU_DEL_PRAT_DEL_CAMPANAR_-_ARINSAL.JPG] [accessed 9 November 2012]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 18226PRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Andreu del Prat del Campanar [aka Església de Sant Antoni]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: Romanesque church much reconstructed now
Church Address: AD400 Arinsal, Andorra
Site Location: Andorra, Andorra, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the Carretera d'Arinsal, just S of Arinsal, La Massana
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Garcia (2011) notes the Romanesque building here, but no font. Thre is drinking water fountain outside the church that may have been made re-using a medieval container [not necessarily a font or stoup, although possibly]. [NB: we have no information of the font of the original church here, unless the present fountain is a converted font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 375392 4714786
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.575431, 1.481653
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 34′ 31.55″ N, 1° 28′ 53.95″ E

REFERENCES

  • Garcia, Mireia, El románico en Andorra, Andorra la Vella: Andorra Ed., 2011, p. 74-76