Torts / Els Torts / Sant Julià dels Torts

INFORMATION

FontID: 08136TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Julià
Church Patron Saints: St. Julian
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Jonquera, about 2 km N of that town, in the northern area of the Alt Empordà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984-) as the hemispheric basin of a baptismal font probably of the 12th or 13th century; it is hemispheric and totally plain, with considerable damage to the upper side [the church has a stone wall-mounted holy-water stoup on the inside, just right of the entrance, on the S wall; appears plain; not listed in this Index]. 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 [basin only]
Font Shape: hemispheric
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-