Leres No. 1 / Lerés

Described and illustrated in Antonio García Omedes' entry for Lerés [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/73-Leres.htm] [accessed 25 June 2020]: "Bajo el coro hay un confesonario "clásico " y la pila bautismal tras él, en el ángulo suroeste. Es de copa monolítica, rematada por mueble de madera practicable en el que se guardan los objetos litúrgicos del bautismo (Imagen 16). Luce en su convexidad una decoración, parcialmente oculta por hallarse empotrada en el muro. Lo visible muestra dos líneas de dentado de gran altura entre las que se advierte lo que parece un torso sin cabeza, con brazo derecho en jarras e izquierdo abrazando una cruz apoyada sobre uno de los dientes de sierra". Tub-shaped baptismal font cemented to the southwest corner of the nave, beneath the west gallery; the basin is round and tapers towards the bottom; it appears to be raised on a base or plinth, although it is not clear how much much of the latter is part of the cemented part; only part of the basin is visible, the rest hidden in the cemented part; the north side of the font is decorated with a strange arrangement of motifs: a saw-tooth shape at the bottom is linked to a similar shape at the upper rim, the upper area actually cut off the stone of the side of the rim; in one of the angles of the saw-tooth below is a shape resembling a human body, one arm akimbo (?), the other holding or touching a Latin cross (trefflee?); whatever else there may be is hidden in the cemented part. A modern rim-buffet canopy has been mounted on the font, its wide doors opening onto the north side; curiously the canopy includes a shelf on which to keep the baptismal vials, etc., supposedly. [cf. Index entry for Leres No. 2 for an even more bizarre object in this church].