Beget No. 1 / Baget
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph 1 October 2021 by Adamalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beget-Sant_Cristòfol_Beget_124541.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2023]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amadalvarez, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 October 2021 by Adamalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beget-Sant_Cristòfol_Beget_124541.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Sant Cristófol de Beget"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luz Pulpeiro, 2014
Image Source: edited dateil of a digital photograph 13 September 2014 by Luz Pulpeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Sant_Cristófol_de_Beget_02.JPG?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Església de Sant Cristòfol de Beget (Camprodon)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enfo, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 5 February 2011 by Enfo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:021_Sant_Cristòfol_de_Beget.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Església de Sant Cristòfol de Beget (Camprodon)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enfo, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 5 February 2011 by Enfo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:087_Sant_Cristòfol_de_Beget.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanische Kirche "Sant Cristòfor de Beget", XII. Jahrhundert, Beget, Katalonien, Spanien"
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Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2008 by Wamito [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Cristòfor_de_Beget_Garrotxa_001.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanische Kirche "Sant Cristòfor de Beget", XII. Jahrhundert, Beget, Katalonien, Spanien"
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Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2008 by Wamito [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Cristòfor_de_Beget_Garrotxa_003.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior de l'església de Sant Cristòfol de Beget, Camprodon, Catalunya."
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Image Source: digital photograph 11 October 2008 by Xtv [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_de_l'església_de_Sant_Cristòfol_de_Beget.JPG?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila baptismal de l'església romànica de Beget. Pila baptismal antiga del temple parroquial , declarat monument nacional , dedicat a sant Cristòfor , és un exemplar romànic molt notable (ss X-XIII) on és venerada la majestat de Beget ."
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Image Source: digital image of a 1918 B&W photograph SaP_459_09 [Placa de vidre estereoscòpica , 6x13 cm] by Josep Salvany i Blanch, in the Fons Salvany of the Biblioteca de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_baptismal_de_l'església_romànica_de_Beget.jpeg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the side lock for the cover of these tub fonts is typical on both sides of the Catalan Pyrénées
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sant Cristòfol Beget - pica baptismal" -- showing the notch cut into the stone to accommodate the lock for the cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amadalvarez, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 October 2021 by Adamalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beget-Sant_Cristòfol_Beget_124541.jpg?uselang=ca] [accessed 2 January 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (email of 24 December 2004]
INFORMATION
FontID: 02320BEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Cristòfol de Beget
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: Carrer Bell Aire, 2 / Plaça Major, 17867 Beget, Gerona / Girona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located of the GIV-5323, in the municipality and about 10 km W of Camprodon, in the eastern Ripollès area of Gerona, about 23 km N of Olot
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona
Historical Region: Ripollès, Alta Garrotxa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the gallery stairs
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Joannetes and Puigpardines
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: The 12thC(?) church of Sant Cristofol has also another font, one of the so-called "oil fonts" (because they were used to store lamp oil for the church, though believed to have been early versions of the baptismal fonts in several areas around the Pyrenees). The church contains a magnificent Romanesque Christ with the original paint still on and believed to have originated at the Bestraca cenobium.
Font Notes:
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Described in Buron (1980: 184) as a Romanesque baptismal font probably from a Benedictine monastery; large round cauldron-shaped font ornamented with two bands of rope motif, one, wider, just under the rim, and a thinner one about 4/5 down the side [the thread of the rope mouldings goes in opposite directions in the two mouldings]. The font is located under the stairs that lead up to the choir. Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 146). Described in Mestre i Godes (1999, v. 2: 117). The entry for this church in the Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya [https://invarquit.cultura.gencat.cat/card/91] [accessed 2 January 2024] reports an immersion baptismal font of the Romanesque period with a diameter of 120 cm ["La pica baptismal d'immersió, és d'època romànica i es conserva a l'interior del temple. Està decorada per dos acordonaments horitzontals, les direccions dels quals són oposades. Mesura 120 cm de diàmetre. Segons Ramon Vinyeta "es pot considerar un dels exemples més rellevants d'aquest estil a les comarques pirinenques"]. The font is mentioned in Solà Colomer (2005) as being somewaht similar to those at Joanette and Puigpardines.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.32, 2.48
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 19′ 12″ N, 2° 28′ 48″ E
UTM: 31T 457151 4685437
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 125 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 146); Mestre i Godes (1999, v. 2: p. 117) [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: hinged about the middle
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980
Centre Excursionista de Catalunya, Ripollès, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1999
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: el prepirineu, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999
Solà Colomer, Xavier, "La Reforma Catòlica a la muntanya catalana a través de les visites pastorals: els bisbats de Girona i Vic (1587-1800)
La Reforma Catòlica a la muntanya catalana a través de les visites pastorals: els bisbats de Girona I Vic (1587-1800)", ISBN 84-689-8280-6, Girona, 2005