Sant Jaume dels Domenys / Sant Jacobus dels Domenys / San Jaime dels Domenys / Vila Domenio

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design element - motifs - floral - 4-8 petal - in a cricle - 16

Scene Description: on three sides of the basin

Image Source: Digital image from Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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design element - motifs - leaves - palm

Scene Description: on the lower register, back side

design element - motifs - wheel - 7-12-spoke - 19

Scene Description: sets of five on three sides, and one set of four on the fourth side; the number of radii oscilates between seven and twelve

Image Source: Digital image from Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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human figure - head - in a circle

Scene Description: on one of the front corners of the basin

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human figure - orant

Scene Description: on one of the front corners of the basin

Image Source: Digital image from Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net] [detail]

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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: one on each of the two corners at the back of the basin

Image Source: Digital image from Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of basin

Scene Description: the side with the encircled cross in the left angle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of basin

Scene Description: at some point it may have been the front side because it was altered to house the lock of the font cover, regardless of the damage done to the original carving -- notice the multi-lobe, shell-like shape of the underbowl, which may suggest a date into the 13th century [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font

Image Source: Digital image from Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (email of 25 April 2005)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

Scene Description: as exhibited in the Museu Litúrgic Parroquial de Sant Jaume dels Domenys in 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02211JAU

Museum and Inventory Number: Museu Litúrgic Parroquial de Sant Jaume dels Domenys

Church/Chapel: Església parròquial de Sant Jaume / Iglesia Parroquial de San Jaime

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Plaza Andrés Marce 2, CP-43713, Sant Jaume Dels Domenys, Tarragona, España -- Tel.: 977 677 162

Country Name: Spain

Location: Tarragona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located off the TP-2442, 9 km from Vendrell, in the Baix Panedès region, 45 km ENE of Tarragona, 70 km W of Barcelona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Barcelona

Historical Region: Baix Panedès

Font Location in Church: Reported in the small chapel to the left of the main entrance ca. 1992. Another source locates it in the Museu Litúrgic Parroquial de Sant Jaume dels Domenys

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela and to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of Barcelona, Spain, for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: church here documented by 1279

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Fernández Sánchez (1992) shows a quadrangular basin with two rows of encircled rosettes of various types; one of the visible corners has a figure carved on the angle; the other visible corner appears to have a face on it; the caption accompanying the illustration identifies the base as modern and reads "Pila bautismal del s. VIII" [=baptismal font of the 8th century], an unlikely dating for a font quite similar to other Romanesque fonts of the area firmly dated to the 12th or 13th centuries, although several other popular sources describe it as "Visigothic". Not so in Catalunya romànica (1984- ), where the font is dated to the late 12th or 13th century; the basin is quadrangular, with a set of encircled motifs arranged into two registers on the sides: the upper register is made up of three sets of five encircled wheels with 11 to 14 radii, plus one set of four such on the fourth side [the need to accommodate the corner head reduced the space on this side]; the lower register has three sets of encircled floral motifs, most of them 4-petal, but the left one on each of the sides varies its number up to 8-petal; the fourth side of this register has palm leaves instead; the corners of the basin have two encircled potent Greek crosses at the back, one on each side, and two human figures in the front corners: one is a full orant figure, the other just a head, both in a niche. The motifs are described in this -and other- source as of the Visigothic type but, unlike some sources which immediately jump to date this font to the Visigothic period, this source points out that these motifs lasted in Spain until well into the 15th century, and that the font belongs most probably in the late 12th or early 13th century. The underbowl of the basin is plain but the surface is actually multilobed, which may suggest a dating into the 13th century. The pedestal base is a modern replacement.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 379469 4573215

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Diameter (inside rim): 64 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 94 cm**

Basin Depth: 45 cm [estimated in the source]

Basin Total Height: 59 cm

Height of Base: 47 cm [calculated]

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: *[93 x 65 cm]

Notes on Measurements: Cruañes-Virella (1984: 64-66) *[Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 256)] **[Cruañes-Virella (cited in Cat. Rom. ibid., 527) show these measurements as diameters of the basin]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Cruañes i Oliver, Esteve, Piques baptismals d'immersió del Penedès i el seu entorn, Vilafranca del Penedès: Museu de Vilafranca, 1984

Fernández Sánchez, Francisco, Cataluña y el Camino de Santiago, Barcelona: Ediciones Destor, 1992

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-