Tarrasa No. 1 / Egara / Terrassa
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view of font
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PM_27016,_Església_de_Sant_Miquel-E_Terrassa.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amador Alvarez, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2011 by Amador Alvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrassa-EsgSantMiquel-0009.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:074_Sant_Miquel_de_Terrassa,_amb_Sant_Pere_al_fons.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church interior - apse - ceiling - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:118_Sant_Miquel_de_Terrassa,_pintures_murals_de_la_cúpula_de_l'absis.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church interior - apse - ceiling - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:119_Sant_Miquel_de_Terrassa,_pintures_murals_de_la_cúpula_de_l'absis.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "columnes que sostenen la cúpula".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:109_Sant_Miquel_de_Terrassa,_columnes_que_sostenen_la_cúpula.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "un dels capitells que sostenen la cúpula".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:108_Sant_Miquel_de_Terrassa,_un_dels_capitells_que_sostenen_la_cúpula.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]
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view of church interior - apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1999 by BSI
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view of church interior - crypt - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1999 by BSI
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view of church interior - elevation, section, etc.
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lampérez y Romea (1930)
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information
Scene Description: posted in the church complex
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 October 2013)
view of church interior - plan, section, etc.
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lampérez y Romea (1930)
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pòrtic, 1999
Image Source: El Valles Occidental... (1999)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02259EGA
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian? / Visigothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Miguel / Església de Sant Miquel
Font Location in Church: In a baptistery chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: These three Visigothic churches are clustered together in the Roman part of town and are well worth a visit.
Church Address: Plaça del Rector Homs, 1, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
Site Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located NW of Barcelona
Font Notes:
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One of three churches located in the Roman-Visigothic complex of Egara, in the present city of Tarrasa (Sant Miquel is called "la segona catedral d'Egara" by Puig i Cadafalch) (Puig i Cadafalch, 1949, v.1, no page number given). "Monumento visigodo, elevado entre los años 450 y 720 ... de planta cuadrada, con un solo ábside, poligonal al exterior y de arco ultrasemicircular al interior ... El crucero se forma con ocho columnas sobre las que cargan ocho arcos de medio punto muy peraltados y sobre ellos una cúpula octogonal ...] (Lamperez y Romea, 1930, t. 1, p. 192-193; plans, etc., also on p. 193). The font parapet starts with a square plant but the trimmed corners make it octagonal. Delcor (1973) dates the establishment of the episcopal seat to the mid-5th century, therefore the baptistery should be dated no earlier than that. Marti Bonet (2007), on the other hand, states that this supposed baptistery has been proved to be actually a funerary church [="El suposat baptisteri de Sant Miquel s'ha comprovat que és un edifici sepulcral del segle VI"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: W are grateful to Antonio Daban Royo for the additional photographs of church and baptistery
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 418176 4602155
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.566887, 2.018636
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 34′ 0.79″ N, 2° 1′ 7.09″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: sunken font, octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: Overflow system
Drainage Notes: The piscina has a series of overflow channels at the upper level (floor level) to catch the excess water.
REFERENCES
- Barral i Altet, Xavier, Art pre-romànic a Catalunya: segles IX-X, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1981, p. 248, 249
- Carabasa, Llüisa, El Vallès Occidental--El Vallès Oriental, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1999, ill. on p. 104
- Cobreros, Jaime, Románico en España (Guías Periplo), Madrid: Incafo, 1993, p. 97
- Delcor, M., "Les cuves romanes et leur figuration en Roussillon, Cerdagne et Conflent", 4, Cahiers Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, 1973, pp. 96-109, 4 pl.; p. 97-98
- Fontaine, Jacques, Art pré-roman hispanique, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1973-1977, t. 1: 354-355 and pls. 158, 159
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. I: 61-63; vol. XVIII: 244ff
- Lampérez y Romea, Vicente, Historia de la arquitectura cristiana española en la Edad Media, segun el estudio de los elementos y los monumentos, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1930, p. 192-193
- Martí Bonet, Josep M., El Bisbatd'Egara: breu història, Barcelona: R. Dalmau, 2007, p. 162 (?)
- Noguera Massa, Antoni, "Les piques baptismals romàniques a l'antic comtat de Besalú", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 10-13; p. 10
- Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967, 45-51
- Puig i Cadafalch, Josep, Escultura romànica a Catalunya, Barcelona: Alpha, 1949, vol.1 [unpaged]