San Miguel de Fluvia No. 1 / San Miguel de Fluviá / Sant Miquel de Fluvia / Sant Miquel de Fluvià
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Església de Sant Miquel de Fluvià"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Albert Sarola Juanola, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 September 2011 by Albert Sarola Juanola [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Miquel_de_Fluvià_-_Església_de_Sant_Miquel_de_Fluvià.jpg] [accessed 17 May 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista interior de l'església de Sant Miquel de Fluvià. Josep Salvany i Blanch (1917)" -- notice the wall-mounted holy-water stoup on the right wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1917 "Placa de vidre estereoscòpica , 6x13 cm" by Josep Salvany i Blanch, Fons Salvany [SaP_416_12], in the Memòria Digital de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista_interior_de_l'església_de_Sant_Miquel_de_Fluvià.jpeg] [accessed17 May 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sant Miquel de Fluvià. Pila bautismal"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Monestirs.cat, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in Monestirs.cat [https://www.monestirs.cat/monst/aemp/cae49fluv.htm] [accessed 17 May 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08138FLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [formerly Benedictine monastery church] de San Miguel / Església parroquial de Sant Miquel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Carrer Forn Romà, 14, 17475 Sant Miquel de Fluvià, Gerona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 972 56 80 70
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off the GI-6218, in the municipality of the same name, 10-12 km SSE of Figueres
Historical Region: Alto Ampurdán / Alt Empordà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montse Estela for her photographs of this font and to Mikel Unanue for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 11thC church; modified 14thC
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a baptismal font of the medieval period; it consists of a cylindrical basin with rounded underbowl [alternatively described as hemispherical with extended vertical sides] and raised on a very short cylindrical base, both totally plain. As it is common in fonts of both sides of the Pyrenees in this area, the upper side of the basin has had a quadrangular metal plate inserted in the stone to provide the lock for the cover; in this case, the hardware and the cover itself are in place, although the cover is modern. Noted and illustrated in Badia-Homs (2007).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.17, 2.99
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 10′ 12″ N, 2° 59′ 24″ E
UTM: 31T 499174 4668651
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 93 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IX: 826)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: the locking hardware of the old cover is still in place
REFERENCES
Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; p. 7 and ill. On p. 8
Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; p. 9 and ill. on p. 8
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-