Malanyanes
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arcade
INFORMATION
FontID: 02308MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Santa Agnès
Church Patron Saints: St. Agnes
Church Location: Carrer Camí d'Alcoll, 0, 08430 Santa Agnès de Malanyanes, Barcelona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 610 90 58 03
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Granollers, in the municipality of La Roca del Vallès
Historical Region: Vallès Oriental
Font Location in Church: Outside the church, to the left of the western façade, under the porch
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Described in Buron (1980: 344) as a large baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVIII: 80, 400-401): granite cauldron-shaped font of large proportions; the font is ornamented with a roll moulding in the upper rim and two bands of round arches in low relief on the sides; it rest directly on the ground. This same source (ibid.) informs that it was installed in the outer porch of this church ca. 1923; it is not known where the font stood originally. The illustration in this source shows the basin serving as plant vase, with a fern in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.61, 2.35
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 37′ N, 2° 21′ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-