Palera No. 1 / Santa Maria de Palera

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2021)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2005 by amadalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beuda_staMaria_Palerà_IPA9922_5024.JPG] [accessed 9 July 2016]

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view of church exterior - west portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Montserrat Rota Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 July 2016)

view of church interior - apse

Scene Description: the Madonna and Child here is a copy; the original is at the Museo de Gerona

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2013 by Nasobema lyricum [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_de_Palera_02.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2016]

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view of church interior - sculpture - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Maria de Palera (s.XIV-XV). Museu Diocesà de Girona" [NB: the one displayed in the church is a copy]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2014 by Josep Maria Viñolas Esteva [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mare_de_Déu_de_Palera.jpg] [accessed 9 July 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Montserrat Rota Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 July 2016)

view of font

Image Source: undated photograph by Merce Rota

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2021)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2009 by Montserrat Rota Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 July 2016)

INFORMATION

FontID: 08150PAL

Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Santa Maria

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Santa Maria de Palera, 17850 Beuda, Girona, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located N of A-26, in the municipality of Beuda, and to the SSW of Beuda itself, about 4 km from Besalú

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona

Historical Region: La Garrotxa

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side

Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Two other such fonts in the Museu Episcopal de Vic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Rota Serra and to Merce Rota for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: original church 11thC; remodelled 16th-17thC -- A 14thC Gothic Madonna in local alabaster from this church was moved to the Museu d'Art de Girona

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 240) as a stone baptismal font probably of the late 11th or early 12th century; the basin is roughly hemispherical and plain and shows at least one iron staple from the old cover in the upper rim; the stem of the base is short and round; the lower base or plinth is quadrangular [square?]. The same source points out two more such fonts at the Museu Episcopal de Vic. Noted and illustrated in La Garrotxa (2005). Noted in the Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural de la Generalitat de Catalunya [http://patmapa.gencat.cat/web/guest/patrimoni/arquitectura?articleId=HTTP://GAUDI_ELEMENTARQUITECTONIC_9922] [accessed 9 July 2016]: "Antiga església parroquial construïda al segle XI i que, a l'acabament del segle XVI o començament del segle XVII, passà a convertir-se en sufragània de Sant Pere de Lligordà. Ve documentalment citada l'any 1085 a l'acta de consagració del temple del Sant Sepulcre situat dins la seva jurisdicció eclesiàstica. [...] Es conserva una pica baptismal d'època romànica, d'immersió. Està situada al costat dret de l'única nau de que disposa el temple; no té cap mena de decoració i fa 74 centímetres de diàmetre i 72 centímetres d'alçada"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.22157, 2.69788

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 13′ 17.65″ N, 2° 41′ 52.37″ E

UTM: 31T 475066 4674422

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural de la Generalitat de Catalunya [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: iron staple(s) in the upper rim

REFERENCES

La Garrotxa: els pobles medievals de Girona, Barcelona: March Editor, 2005

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-