Beguda / Baguda / Santa Eulalia de Beguda / Santa Eulàlia de Begudá
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view of basin's top
Scene Description: after 1998 restoration of the church
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Image Source: digital photograph from Montserrat Estela and Angels Majó Rais [www.romanicat.net]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: after the 1998 restoration of the church
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: after the 1998 restoration of the church
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Image Source: digital photograph from Montserrat Estela and Angels Majó Rais [www.romanicat.net]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: wstern side alcove where the font had been mounted until the 1998 restoration of the church
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Image Source: digital photograph from Montserrat Estela and Angels Majó Rais [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received [e-mail of 17 Oct. 2002]
view of font
Scene Description: as installed after 1998 restoration of the church
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Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received [e-mail of 17 Oct. 2002]
view of font - plan, elevation and section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angels Majó Rais, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph from Montserrat Estela and Angels Majó Rais [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received [e-mail of 17 Oct. 2002]
view of font in context
Scene Description: after 1998 restoration of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angels Majó Rais, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph from Montserrat Estela and Angels Majó Rais [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received [e-mail of 17 Oct. 2002]
INFORMATION
FontID: 00831SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Eulàlia de Begudá
Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida
Church Location: Begudá, 17857 Gerona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Santa Eulalia de Beguda is located off the A26, in the municipality and SE of Sant Joan de les Fonts, NE of Olot
Historical Region: La Garrotxa
Font Location in Church: The font has now [2002] been placed in the centre of the nave, towards the W [orig. located at the W end, embeded in an alcove, left of the main door]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela and Angels Majó Rais for the detailed information and the images of this font
Church Notes: church here documented 1034
Font Notes:
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The Catalan newspaper AVUI [Jan. 4, 1998] reported that an octagonal baptismal font devoid of any ornamentation and dating from the 12th or 13th century had been recently discovered behind a false wall during renovation works at the parish of Santa Eulàlia de Begudá. Local sources, however, inform BSI that the font had been embeded -not hidden- into a side alcove in the interior of the church, in the western wall, just north of the main door [cf. Images area]. During the restoration undertaken at that time, the font was moved to the centre of the nave, towards the W end, right in front of the main entrance to the church [W door]. The tub-shaped octagonal font is now raised 5 inches [12 cm] off the ground by a metal plate. One of the sides of the basin shows a circular indentation of about 2-3 inches (5-7 cm) in diameter with four smaller ones around it; this must have been the place where the lock of the cover was attached. This type of lock, and its position on the upper side of the basin side, is not uncommon in early fonts in both sides of the eastern Pyrenees.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.195857, 2.546089
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 11′ 45.08″ N, 2° 32′ 45.92″ E
UTM: 31T 462524 4671622
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 6-8.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Basin Depth: 31 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 45 cm*
Basin Total Height: 63 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 63 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Angels Majó Rais on-site
LID INFORMATION
Notes: evidence of the removed lock is left on the side of the basin