Sant Tomas de Fluvia / Sant Tomàs de Fluvià

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BBU01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: in low relief

INFORMATION

FontID: 05905FLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Sant Tomàs de Fluvià
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Torroella de Fluvià, in the Alt Empordà region of Catalonia, about 14 km ESE of Figueres
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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).

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]

REFERENCES

Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; p. 7
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-