Llorenc del Penedes / Llorenç del Penedès

Results: 13 records

B01: human figure - head

B02: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

B03: design element - motifs - leaf - palm - 2

B04: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 2 arches

B05: design element - motifs - plant

B06: design element - architectural - arch? - 2

B07: design element - architectural - column - 3

Scene Description: framing the next two motifs between them

B08: design element - patterns - reticular

B09: sdesign element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a circle

B10: animal - bird - dove? or peacock?

Scene Description: facing left

B11: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - webbed tips

BBU01: design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: near the upper rim, on the basin side

BBU02: design element - motifs - rope moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02663LLO
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Llorenç
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Carrer Vidal i Barraquer, 1, 43712 Llorenç del Penedès, Tarragona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 977 67 73 31
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located on the road between Vendrell and Sant Jaume dels Domenys, 7 km from Vendrell, and accessible via the A-7
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a small chapel to the left of the main entrance
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 75, 244-245): baptismal font probably of the 11th or 12th century; bucket-shaped basin mounted on a modern pedestal base; the upper basin side is ornamented with a band of motif resembling crenellation or very short vertical mouldings; right below it a rope moulding; the sides proper have a number of motifs described thus in this source [L-->R]: 1)human head with no particular distinguishing features; 2)six-petal floral motif in a circle; 3)two palm leaves; 4)two-arch arcade; 5)plant motif; 6)arches?; 7)column; 8)reticular pattern; 9)column; 10)four-petal floral motif in a circle; 11)column; 12)dove or peacock?; 13)six-petal floral motif with webbed tips, in a circle. The basin has some damage at the upper rim and sides; a plain flat wooden cover, modern, appears on it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.2841, 1.55217
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 17′ 2.76″ N, 1° 33′ 7.81″ E
UTM: 31T 378758 4571306

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 82 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 107 cm [103 cm*]
Basin Depth: 46 cm [estimated in the source]
Basin Total Height: 58 cm *[60 cm]
Height of Base: 50 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm
Notes on Measurements: Cruañes-Virella (1984: 60, 61) [repr. in Cat. Rom., ibid.,:527] *[Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 244)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

Catalunya romànica 3: l'Alt Penedès, el Baix Penedès, el Garraf, l'Anoia, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 1999
Cruañes i Oliver, Esteve, Piques baptismals d'immersió del Penedès i el seu entorn, Vilafranca del Penedès: Museu de Vilafranca, 1984
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-