Auros / Aurós / Orós

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Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 July 2019)

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view of basin - interior

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of stoup - upper view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of stoup

Scene Description: the base is probably of a later date
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 28 July 2019)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22267AUR
Object Type: Stoup
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Pere de Aurós
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the rural chapel of Sant Joan d'Aurós, also Romanesque, is located about 100 yds from this church; we have no information on whether there is a medieval font or stoup in it
Church Address: Aurós, La Guingueta d'Àneu
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: The one house plus one church abandoned hamlet is located off the C-28, N of Sort, W of Andorra, in the municipality of La Guingueta d'Àneu
Ecclesiastic Region: Dióceis de Urgel / Urgell
Historical Region: Unarre, Pallars Sobirà
Font Notes:
Wall-mounted stoup consisting of a plain roughly hemispherical basin mounted on a later pedestal base; totally plain. It could be medieval, even of the date of the 12th-13th century (?) church here.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta for bringing this item to our attention and for the photographs of the stoup

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 348322 4721909
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.6347, 1.15006
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 38′ 4.92″ N, 1° 9′ 0.22″ E