Montbui No. 2 / Monte buyo / Tossa de Montbui
Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - knob - 4?
Scene Description: at the upper basin sides; two appear damaged/broken off
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a flat moulding around the underbowl, just above the rope moulding
design element - motifs - rope moulding
design element - motifs - piping - 4?
view of stoup in context
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02303MON
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Santa Maria de la Tossa de Montbui
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway, W side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original church started late-10thC; re-built early-11thC; soon thereafter it becomes parish church; The keys to the church are kept at the old rectory, now a restaurant. (Catalunya romanica 3, 1999)
Church Address: Camí de la Tossa, 08710 Santa Margarida de Montbui, Anoia, Spain
Site Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the BV-2204, N of the C-37, in the municipality of Santa Margarida de Montbui, 6 km from Igualada on the road to Valls, near Santa Margarida de M., in the church of Santa Maria
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Vich
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 511) and in Buron (1980: 88): composite holy-water stoup probably from the 12th or 13th century or a little later; the upper part is made of a single block of stone divided in two parts by a [horizontal] rope motif, resembling a capital and a column on a square base. The upper part resembles a mortar with massive handles at the top [two are broklen], and is ornamented with a horizontal strap or flat moulding which is crossed by several [4?] vertical ones; the latter resembles ironwork reinforcing the basin. It is believed to have been originally from the castle [Castel de Montbui, o de la Tossa]. The base is a rounded column with vertical mouldings which Catalunya rom.. suggests may be an altar support.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 381615 4601370
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.55524, 1.580391
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 33′ 18.86″ N, 1° 34′ 49.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: capital, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 4 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 35 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 33 cm
Basin Total Height: 25 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 56 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 511) [NB: these measurements do not include the lower piece on which the stoup is now mounted]
REFERENCES
- Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980, p. 88
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XIX: 511
- Speltz, Alexander, Styles of Ornament: a Pictorial Survey of Six Thousand Years of Ornamental Design, New York: Gramercy Books, 1994(c1910), p. 199-200