Sant Privat d'en Bas

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N//A: design element - motifs - moulding

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angel - head

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches

Scene Description: though blind now the arcade is said to have had scenes of Adam and Eve, later erased [chiselled off?]

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design element - motifs

Scene Description: several

view of church exterior

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02326PRI
Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Sant Privat
Church Patron Saints: St. Privatus of Mende [aka Privado / Privat / Privato]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the C-152, at the W end of the GIP-5226, 7-8 km SW of Olot, in the municipality of La Vall d'en Bas
Historical Region: Garrotxa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel of the NW corner of the nave [earlier built into the wall of thge baptistery]
Century and Period: 12th century (late), Romanesque
Church Notes: church here documented 1017; present church 12thC; modified 18thC -- A very interesting capital from this church, now in the Museu d'Art de Girona, has images probably related to the iconography on the baptismal font at Beuda
Described in Buron (1980: 192); described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 397-398): Romanesque baptismal font probably of the late 12th century made of limestone; the large basin is roughly cylindrical, slightly narrower at the bottom and chamfered; the upper side is decorated with a broad moulding followed down by a thin one; the sides are covered by what appears to be a blind arcade of round double-arches; some of the spandrels of the arcade are inhabited by motifs [angel heads, folral/foliage, etc.] This same source (ibid.) makes reference to an earlier source [cf. Author notes below] which identified, in the more damaged area of the side, scenes of Adam and Eve; these scenes, no longer visible now, may have been erased because the figures were naked. The base is very short, round and crudely executed.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.149494, 2.407794
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 8′ 58.18″ N, 2° 24′ 28.06″ E
UTM: 31T 451070 4666544

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 89 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 105 cm*
Basin Depth: 54 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 397-398)

REFERENCES

Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-