Sant Tomas de Fluvia / Sant Tomàs de Fluvià / Santo Tomás de Fluviá

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05905FLU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santo Tomás, de Sant Tomàs de Fluvià / Església de l'Antic Priorat de Sant Tomàs de Fluvià

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas

Church Notes: 11thC Benedictine monastery church built on an earlier one, perhaps 7th or 8thC; became parochial 1789

Church Address: Carrer Sant Tomas, 18I, 17474 Sant Tomàs de Fluvià, Girona, Spain

Site Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the GIV-6218, in the municipality of Torroella de Fluvià, about 14 km ESE of Figueres

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona

Historical Region: Alt Empordà / Alto Ampurdán

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a small Romanesque baptismal font consisting of hemispherical basin ornamented with a band of arches without support in low relief around the upper basin side; the base, a prismatic perdestal, may not have belonged to it originally; the wooden cover is relatively modern and is studded with mean-looking spikes with the tips up, as if to prevent anyone from sitting on it! A staple with a chain to lock the cover is secured to the side of the basin. Noted in Badia-Homs (2007).

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 500796 4669884

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.1811, 3.00964

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 10′ 51.96″ N, 3° 0′ 34.7″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

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