Toralles / Sant Martì de Toralles

INFORMATION

FontID: 08151TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Martì
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Montagut de Fluvià, towards Oix (accessible off the road from Castellfollit de la Roca to Oix)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted in the NW angle of the nave
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 265); the basin is roughly hemispherical and devoid of ornamentation; at the front, in the upper basin side, it has an iron lock plate inserted, in a position commonly found in many fonts of the eastern Pyrenees; this basin has been mounted with concrete (?) in the NW corner of the nave; this source describes it as difficult to date and probably late rather than early.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: lock plate inserted in the upper basin side, at the front

REFERENCES

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