Tavertet No. 1, Sant Cristofol de Tavertet
Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image and permission to photograph received (e-mail of 4 September 2005)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to photograph received (e-mail of 9 July 2004)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image Source: Digital photograph from Juan Antonio Olañeta, www.claustro.com
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to photograph received (e-mail of 4 September 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 08146TAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Cristòfol
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off the C153 (follow the C153 NW from VIc/Vich for about 15 km to Santa Maria de Corco; there take a local road east; it leads directly to Tavertet, just east of the Pant de Sau)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. III: 626) as a baptismal font of the late Romanesque period; the basin is of an irregular polygonal shape with nine sides and without apparent ornamentation [cf. also Index entry for Tavertet No. 1 for a holy-water stoup in this same church] [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, and to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for the photographs of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (9 sides)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal (9 sides)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-