Tarrasa No. 2 / Egara / Terrassa

Image copyright © Palol, 1967

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the font of the Early Christian church is beneath the transept

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:106_Santa_Maria_de_Terrassa.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matilde Martínez, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 November 2009 by Matilde Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Església_de_Santa_Maria_(Terrassa)_-_7.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mosaic romà de la primitiva basílica cristiana davant Santa Maria de Terrassa."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:092_Mosaic_romà_de_la_primitiva_basílica_cristiana_davant_Santa_Maria_de_Terrassa.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: the church of Santa Maria in the centre; behind and to the lelft is Sant Miquel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:082_Santa_Maria_de_Terrassa,_al_fons_Sant_Miquel.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Maria de Terrassa, mosaic amb paó, de l'antiga seu d'Ègara"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:093_Santa_Maria_de_Terrassa,_mosaic_amb_paó,_de_l'antiga_seu_d'Ègara.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Santa Maria (Conjunto monumental de Egara) in Terrassa in der Provinz Barcelona (Katalonien/Spanien), Innenraum".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrassa_Santa_Maria_308.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "la nau des del transsepte".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enric, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2015 by Enric [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:101_Santa_Maria_de_Terrassa,_la_nau_des_del_transsepte.JPG] [accessed 21 June 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: showing the old baptistery ["Espai baptismal"] beneath the transept of Santa Maria

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 August 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrassa,_Església_de_Santa_Maria-PM_27043.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES

view of church interior - south apse - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Santa Maria (Conjunto monumental de Egara) in Terrassa in der Provinz Barcelona (Katalonien/Spanien), Wandmalerei in der südlichen Seitenapsis, Darstellung: Martyrium von Thomas Becket".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrassa_Santa_Maria_305.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - south apse - painting - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enfo, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2010 by Enfo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:159_Santa_Maria_de_Terrassa,_pantocràtor.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (email of 1 February 2005)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schlunk, 1978

Image Source: Schlunk (1978: pl. 40)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967

Image Source: B&W photograph in Palol (1967)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (email of 1 February 2005)

view of font - plan

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Palol, 1967

Image Source: drawing in Palol [after Serra Ráfols] (1967)

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view of font - upper view

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: the font as displayed in the summer of 1999

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1999 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: as displayed in September 2011

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amador Alvarez, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2011 by Amador Alvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrassa-EsgSantaMaria-0007_1.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 07155TAR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María / Església de Santa Maria
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Plaça del Rector Homs, 1, 08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located NW of Barcelona
Font Location in Church: Beneath the transept of the present church
Century and Period: 5th century? / 7th century, Early Christian? / Visigothic?
Cognate Fonts: Santa Margarita de Ampurias (Gerona prov.)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela and to Antonio Daban Royo for their additional photographs of this font
Described and illustrated in Palol (1967), who dates the original font and baptistery to the 5th century. Noted and illustrated in Khatchatrian (1982), after Puig i Cadafalch (1909) and (1947), Gomez Moreno (1919), Serra Rafols (1949), Junyent (1955-1956) and Palol (1957). Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVIII: 235ff). A square sunken baptismal font of the Visigothic period; it was discovered under the present church ca. 1947. Similar to the one at Santa Margarita in Ampurias, in the nearby province of Gerona. Noted in Noguera Massa (2007).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.566672, 2.018772
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 34′ 0.02″ N, 2° 1′ 7.58″ E
UTM: 31T 418188 4602131

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: quadrangular (sunken piscina)
Basin Interior Shape: quadrangular
Basin Exterior Shape: quadrangular

REFERENCES

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Khatchatrian, Armen, Origine et typologie des baptistères paléochrétiens, Mulhouse: Centre de Culture Chrétienne, 1982
Noguera Massa, Antoni, "Les piques baptismals romàniques a l'antic comtat de Besalú", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 10-13; r["References"]
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967
Palol, Pedro de, Arte paleocristiano en España, Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, [1969?]
Schlunk, Helmut, Die Denkmäler der frühchristlichen und westgotischen Zeit, Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1978