Cirera / La Cirera

INFORMATION

FontID: 08133CIR
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Miquel [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Cabanelles, about 7 km from Cabanelles itself, in the SW area of the Alt Empordà
Font Location in Church: In the field, just outside the ruins of the church
Century and Period: 13th century (late) (?), Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a monolithic baptismal font probably of the late 13th century now abandoned in the field outside the ruined church; the cauldron-shaped unmounted basin is plain and now badly damaged around the upper rim; there is no base. It is a crudely rendered object. Badia-Homs (2007) notes a series of Romanesque fonts (Carbonils, la Cirera, Sant Julià dels Torts and Sant Miquel de Solans) in the Empordà region that are monolithic, plain, small and base-less.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; r["References"]
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-