Tapioles

INFORMATION

FontID: 08231TAP
Church/Chapel: Església de Santa Eulàlia
Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Vallgorguina, in the eastern reaches of the Vallès Oriental region, towards the Maresme
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVIII: 80, 434) as a plain baptismal font perhaps of the Romanesque period; the basin is cauldron-shaped and appears mounted on a short platform, rather shapeless. Catalunya romànica (ibid.) cites Ramon Vall and Agustí Masvidal's "El romànic del Vallès (Sabadel: Ausa, 1983): 196 as source of the information and image; the font was in place ca. 1978 as witnessed by the image in this quoted source; it has since disappeared.

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-