Solans Sant Miquel / Santa Llúcia de la Jonquera

INFORMATION

FontID: 08135SOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Miquel de Solans [aka Santuari de Santa Llúcia de la Jonquera]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [St. Lucia]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Jonquera, about 3 km W of that town, in the northern area of the Alt Empordà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end [recovered fronm the exterior ca. 1980?]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a monolithic baptismal font probably of the 12th or 13th century found abandoned in the field outside the church in the early 1980s; the cauldron-shaped unmounted basin is plain and now badly damaged around the upper rim and sides; there is no base proper, although the underbowl ends in a ring moulding that serves as base; when the basin was brought back into the church, the surface of the stone was refinished, althering thus the original surface. 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
Rim Thickness: 13 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 79 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 105 cm
Basin Total Height: 82 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IX: 500)

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-