Barcelona No. 10

INFORMATION

FontID: 07208BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross & St. Eulalia
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Downtown, in the Barrio gòtic
Font Location in Church: In the underground
Century and Period: 4th century (?), Early Christian
Font Notes:
Described in Catalunya romànica 19 (2002: 27) as the second of two sunken baptismal fonts found under the ground of the present Cathedral in the 1968 excavations; it has a square shape and is believed to be from an earlier period than the Visigothic one -- cf. Index entry for Barcelona No. 9 for the Visigothic font]. Palol (1967: 38-43) wrote on the original excavation of this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (sunken)
Basin Interior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Catalunya romànica 19: El Barcelonès - El Baix Llobregat - El Maresme, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2001
Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967