Bianya No. 1, Sant Salvador de Bianya

Results: 4 records

B01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: all around; very loose twists, almost like a chain

BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around

BBU01: design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: a band of, all around

BU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around

INFORMATION

FontID: 08162BIA
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Salvador
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Val de Bianya, about 14 km from Olot, on the road between Sant Joan les Fonts and Sant Pau de Seguries
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner, under the choir
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984-): limestone baptismal font probably of the 12th century; there are three bands of ornamentation on the basin sides: the upper is of saw-tooth; the middle one is a loose two-strand braid that looks almost like a chain, so open are the twists; the third is a rope moulding right at the bottom of the bsin side; there is one other rope moulding on the underbowl; the short pedestal base is round and crudely made. This is one of the better looking fonts of this area, somewhat in the same level as the fonts at Sant Romà de Joanetes and Santa Maria de Puigpardines [cf. Index entries for both] in the nearby Vall d'En Bas, but a little more generous in its ornamentation since the other two are ornamented with rope moulding only. The font has a cylindrical wooden cover of the 'rim-buffet' type; it appears modern. [cf. Index entry for Bianya No. 2 for a nicely decorated Romanesque stoup in the same church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 90 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm
Basin Depth: 41 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 393)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: 'rim-buffet' type

REFERENCES

La Garrotxa: els pobles medievals de Girona, Barcelona: March Editor, 2005
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-