Sant Pau d'Ordal

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: all around the mouth of the inner well

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2015 by Joost Limburg

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 September 2015 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Wamito [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanische_Kirche_Sant_Pau_Ordal_03.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2015 by Joost Limburg

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 February 2011 by Maria Rosa Ferre https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_Pau_d'Ordal_(Subirats)_-_2.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the small chapel off the entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2015 by Joost Limburg

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08240ORD

Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Pau

Church Patron Saints: St. Paul

Church Location: Calle San Pau, 10, 08739 Sant Pau d'Ordal, Barcelona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 938 99 30 77

Country Name: Spain

Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located in the municpality of Subirats, in the Alt Penedès region

Historical Region: Alt Penedès

Font Location in Church: In a chapel, to the right of the entrance

Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.com, for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: original church here documented since mid-11thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Included in Cruañes i Oliver & Virella i Torras' "Piques baptismales d'immersion del Penedès i el seu intorn" (Vilafranca: Museu de Vilafranca, 1984). Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 198, 527), with reference to the first source; the object is actually a fragment of a baptismal font that was found embeded in one of the church walls as filling; it is a hemispherical basin with a roll moulding at the upper rim; the upper surface of the rim is ornamented near the mouth of the well with a zig-zag pattern around the tetra-lobed shape of the inner basin, a rather rare shape in these parts, altough the inner wells of the Early-Christian font at Son Bou and of the Romanesque font at Barcelona Cathedral have tetra-lobed shapes too; on the upper basin side, below the rim moulding, there is damaged inscription that is said to read "GURCO ME FECIT". The fragment that remains is about 2/3 of the total basin, broken vertically. The latter source suggests a dating between the 12th and 14th century, but, considering the tetra-lobed inner basin shape, one should be inclined towards the later end of the range.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 22' 53" N, 1° 47' 45" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatre-foil

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 15 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 90 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm

Basin Depth: 53 cm

Basin Total Height: 81 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 81 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

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: on the basin side, below the rim

Inscription Text: "GURCO ME FECIT"

Inscription Source: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 198)

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-