Falgons No. 1 / Sant Vicenç de Falgons

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

B02: design element - motifs

Scene Description: several motifs adorn the colomns and the bases: foliage, torsades, etc.

CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02327FAL
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Vicenç de Falgons
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent
Church Location: Camí de Mieres, 17831 Falgons, Girona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: In the Gironés region, about 9 km from Banyoles, on the road to Sant Pau.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a NE chapel to the left of the altar
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Described in Buron (1980: 196); described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. V: 461): baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin is ctlindrical with a chamfered underbowl; its sides are ornamented with a blind arcade of round arches; the arches themselves are not ornamented but the columns and their bases are, with torsades, foliage, etc.; below the underbowl, where it meets the base, is a roll moulding [not clear whether or not the base is a separate block]; the base is a plain wide cylindrical pedestal splaying at the bottom, where it has suffered some damage. [cf. Index entry for Falgons No. 2 for a plain stoup in this same church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.1086, 2.66089
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 6' 51" N, 2° 39' 50" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
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-