Sispony
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Belgian man, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by Beligian man [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_John%27s_Church,_Sispony.JPG?uselang=ca] [accessed 12 November 2012]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jordi Casamaior, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2010 by Jordi Casamajor [http://jordicasamajor.nirudia.com/photos/normal/jordicasamajor-20100124210008.jpg [accessed 12 November 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18230SIS
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Joan de Sispony
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: AD400 Sispony, Andorra
Site Location: Andorra, Andorra, Europe
Directions to Site: Sispony is located off the CS-320, just W of the CG-3, in the municipality and 1-2 km S of La Massana [cf. FontNotes]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the disappeared 12thC church here?) -- [photo permission requested by email 12 Nov 2012 -- no reply by 28 April 2013]
Font Notes:
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There is a very crude wall-mounted holy-water stoup in the later church, rounded and with a bulge on the right side that has been interpreted as a mask or face [="carota", "cara molt esquemàtica"]. The stoup may have originally belonged to the earlier church here, or be simply a very crude one of the new church. Garcia (2011) notes a medieval church mentioned in a 13th-century document; the church is thought to have been of the 12th century, and located in the Camino de Sant Joan Vell. [NB: we have no information on the fonts of either church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 378184 4710060
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round