Montella / Monteia / Sant Miquel de Montella / Sant Miquel de Monteia

INFORMATION

FontID: 08152MON
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Miquel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Sales de Llierca, about 9 km from the same town
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 313-314) as a a crudely rendered -maybe unfinished- baptismal font; the basin is roughly hemispherical in shape and badly eroded or damaged; it is raised on a short cylindrical pedestal; the illustration shows the basin filled with old roof tiles (?) [NB: the source has the illustration of the font captioned as "Sant Miquel de Montella", and the description appears under the same heading, but the descriptive paragraph for the font begins: "A l'església de Sant Andreu de Gitarriu es conserva una pica baptismal [...]" -- it is not clear which church this font belongs to -- Sant Andreu de Gitarriu is a church nearby]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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