Torrelletes / Ca l'Altet de Torrelletes

INFORMATION

FontID: 08238TOR
Church/Chapel: [originally from the Església de Santa Magdalena de Torrelletes]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municpality of Castellet i La Gornal, off the N-340, near Arboç, in the Alt Penedès region
Font Location in Church: [not in a church -- in the farm-house at Ca l'Altet de Torrelletes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 107, 527): bucket-shaped baptismal font originally from the church of Santa Magdalena de Torrelletes, now in the Ca l'Altet de Torrelletes, in the farm-house ["masia"]. The church is reported as destroyed in 1936.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 92 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm
Basin Depth: 62 cm
Basin Total Height: 76 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica cites Esteve Cruañes i Oliver & Xavier Virella i Torras' "Piques baptismales d'immersion del Penedès i el seu intorn" (Vilafranca: Museu de Vilafranca, 1984) as source

REFERENCES

Cruañes i Oliver, Esteve, Piques baptismals d'immersió del Penedès i el seu entorn, Vilafranca del Penedès: Museu de Vilafranca, 1984
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-