San Feliu de Guixols, Torre del Fum / Sant Feliu de Guíxols

Reported and illustrated in Palol (1967: 155-156) as a possible baptistery building found under the Torre del Fum in the Benedictine monastery at San Feliu; Palol describes it as either a baptismal or a funerary site, of the Oriental type and probably dating to the 5th or 6th century; no font or piscina was discovered at the time [to be completed: see Khatchatrian's Les Baptist... (Paris, 1962)]. The baptistery chapel houses now a polygonal baptismal font that is either a modified late-Gothic font or a modern one; it is a large basin that appears to have sixteen sides, a vertical upper portion with a tall underbowl, raised on a squat base of the same shape. It has a modern glass cover hinged at the back, and is plain except for the arrises at the angles [NB: not listed separately as it appears to be a modern work].