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

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

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view of basin - interior

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view of stoup

Scene Description: the base is probably of a later date

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view of stoup - upper view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22267AUR
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Pere de Aurós
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Aurós, La Guingueta d'Àneu
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
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 Location in Church: Wall-mounted inside the church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta for bringing this item to our attention and for the photographs of the stoup
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
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.

COORDINATES

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