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 - piping - 4?

design element - motifs - rope moulding

view of stoup in context

INFORMATION

FontID: 02303MON
Church/Chapel: Església de Santa Maria de la Tossa de Montbui
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Camí de la Tossa, 08710 Santa Margarida de Montbui, Anoia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway, W side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
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)
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.55524, 1.580391
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 33′ 18.86″ N, 1° 34′ 49.41″ E
UTM: 31T 381615 4601370

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: capital-shaped (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
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Speltz, Alexander, Styles of Ornament: a Pictorial Survey of Six Thousand Years of Ornamental Design, New York: Gramercy Books, 1994(c1910)