Barcelona No. 10
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07208BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th century (?), Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Basílica Catedral Metropolitana de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia / Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia
Font Location in Church: In the underground
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross & St. Eulalia
Church Address: Pla de la Seu, s/n, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
Site Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Barri gòtic
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Barcelona
Font Notes:
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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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 431136 4581701
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.383889, 2.176389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 23′ 2″ N, 2° 10′ 35″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: sunken font, square
Basin Interior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Catalunya romànica 19: El Barcelonès - El Baix Llobregat - El Maresme, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2001, p. 27
- Palol, Pedro de, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana: siglos IV a VI, Madrid, Valladolid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Enrique Flórez, 1967, p. 38-43