Santa Maria de Miralles

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 02668SAN
Church/Chapel: Església de Santa Maria del Castell
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 08787, Barcelona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Take the B-213 from Igualada to Valls; about 10 kms from Igualada, take a signalled dirt road to the right. (Catalunya romanica 3, 1999)
Font Location in Church: In a niche under the choir, W wall
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Romanesque
Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 514, 528): baptismal font in fairly late style [or re-carved at the time of restoratin of the church in 1948]; octagonal and without ornamentation. Listed with measurements in Cruañes-Virella (1984) [NB: although the font appears, as indicated, in late style, the measurements suggest an earlier dating and re-carving]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.5, 1.528
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 30′ 0″ N, 1° 31′ 40.8″ E
UTM: 31T 377141 4595310

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 88 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm
Basin Depth: 49 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 528), after Cruañes-Virella (1984)

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-