Selva de Mar / Sant Sebastià de la Selva de Mar / Sant Esteva de Mata / Sant Esteve de la Selva de Mar

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04861SEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Església Parroquial de Sant Sebastià
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sebastian
Church Address: Carrer de la Font, 17, 17489 La Selva de Mar, Girona, Spain
Site Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the GIP-6041, about 10 km WNW of Cadaqués, not far from Sant Pere de Rodes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona
Font Notes:
Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a baptismal font with ornamentation of trilobed arches and vegetal motifs denounce a late 13th or early 14th origin; the arcade appears around the underbowl; the other motifs -rosettes and romboid shapes alternating, except two of them, a leaf and a pommegranate (?)- in high relief around the side of the basin; the pedestal base is round and plain. Listed in Bilbao (1996). Badia-Homs (2007) suggests a date in the late 13th or early 14th century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 515213 4685600
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.322494, 3.184626
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 19′ 20.98″ N, 3° 11′ 4.66″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Catalunya romànica 11: L'Alt Empordà, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2000, p. 175
  • Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; p. 8
  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 87 fn68
  • Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. IX: 839