Castelltallat No. 2

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B01: design element - architectural - building

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 07740CAS
Museum and Inventory Number: Museu de Manresa / Museo de Manresa
Church/Chapel: Originally from the Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel?
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located S of the N1418, W of the C-1412, near Sant Mateu de Bages
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Listed in Bilbao (1998: 199) as a baptismal font ornamented with architectonic motifs symbolising the New Jerusalem. [NB: cf. Index entry for Castelltallat No. 1 for the baptismal font now in the church in Castelltallat]

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; r["References"]
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996