Cirera / La Cirera

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08133CIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late) (?), Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Miquel de la Cirera [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: In the field, just outside the ruins of the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: 11th-12thC(?) church
Church Address: 17746 Cabanelles, Gerona, Spain
Site Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the GI-511, in the municipality of Cabanelles, about 7 km from Cabanelles itself, in the SW area of the Alt Empordà
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona
Historical Region: Alto Ampurdán / Alt Empordà
Additional Comments: damaged font / abandoned font
Font Notes:
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. 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.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 476917 4682013
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.29, 2.72
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 17′ 24″ N, 2° 43′ 12″ E

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; p. 7
  • Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. IX: 429