Sant Marti d'Empuries / Sant Martí d'Empúries / San Martín de Empurias
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Image and permission to reprofuce received May 2002
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BBU01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: all around the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2002
Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reprofuce received May 2002
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2002
Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reprofuce received May 2002
INFORMATION
FontID: 04857MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Martì
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located right on the Mediterranean coast, in the S tip of the Golf de Roses/Golfo de Rosas, just N of L'Escala, about 18 kms NE of Gerona city
Font Location in Church: In its baptistery chapel, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for the additional information and image of this font
Church Notes: The same source illustrates also the table of the main altar, a rectangular Romanesque stone ornamented with a blind arcade similar to the one on the font side.
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a Romanesque cauldron-shaped and base-less baptismal font; the rounded basin is totaly plain except for a blind arcade of round arches without support at the upper rim. It appears to have been drastically cleaned or re-finished of late. Noted and illustrated in Badia-Homs (2007)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Catalunya romànica 11: L'Alt Empordà, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2000
Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; p. 7 and ill. on p. 8
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-