Montgarri

No entry found for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]. A large fragment of the round basin of the font has survived and is now [July 2022] used/displayed mounted on a modern base inside the church; a photograph of 2015 [cf. ImagesArea] shows it relegated to the west area of the church interior by the gallery stairs, next to the blocked medieval portal of this church. The fragment probably belongs to the 16th-century church; we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century(?) church here, of which only the old portal remains [not in situ] [cf. ImagesArea]. A large and profusely decorated baptismal font made of a single block of granite is mentioned in a blog by Ctello / Fecha creación: 28/04/2020 [https://www.losviajeros.com/Blogs.php?e=73768] [accesed 22 July 2022] . A mention of a font matching such description and describing some decorative elements appears in Blas, una foto al día [https://blasunafotocadadia.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/2-de-junio-el-santuario-de-montgarri/] [accessed 22 July 2022] [="Dentro del santuario y encontramos una pila bautismal por inmersión esculpida sobre un bloque de piedra de granito y de forma prismática. El rebuidat interior hace unos 42 cm de profundidad; presenta elementos decorativos en la cara frontal que consisten en una serie de hemisferes distribuidas arbitrariamente por la superficie. Siguiendo el mismo frontal hay esculpida una cruz latina de donde sobresale la figura de un torso humano"]. The web page for this church in the June 2017 Conselh Generau d’Aran [https://www.conselharan.org/es/el-conselh-generau-daran-realiza-obras-de-mejora-en-la-iglesia-de-nuestra-senora-de-montgarri/] [accessed 22 July 2022] mentions a font, without details of the object, which is planned to be moved to a more visible area of the interior [="elementos como la pila bautismal, serán reubicados para proporcionar una mejor visión de la misma a los visitantes"]. An old wooden cover appears next to the font when it was still relegated to the area by the steps to the west galllery [cf. ImagesArea], in Eugenio Mateo [http://eugeniomateo.blogspot.com/2012/09/el-santuario-de-montgarri-en-un-verano.html] [accessed 22 July 2022].