Vila-sacra / Vilasacra

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches

Scene Description: slightly pointed arches

INFORMATION

FontID: 05912VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Esteve
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located on the C260, between Figures and Castellò d'Empuries
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the corner made by the N wall and a pillar
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church Notes: The church itself is also 13th-century
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a baptismal font probably of the late Romanesque period as suggested by the pointed arches of the arcade; this arcade in low relief runs around the side of the hemispherical basin [which has extended vertical sides]; the arches rest on a flat moulding that circles the basin parallel to the arches themselves; the short cylindrical base is modern; there is a relatively modern flat wooden cover; the lock for the cover is, as is common in this area of the Pyrenees, on the upper basin side rather than in the rim. The font appears to have been partly embeded in the wall. Noted in Badia-Homs (2007) as early Gothic.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm
Basin Total Height: 60 cm
Height of Base: 20 cm [modern]
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IX: 930)

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-