Can Cerda / Morro Curt, Sant Vicenç de can Cerdà, nr. Font-Rubí
Results: 4 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: a band
BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
BBU02: design element - motifs - rectangle
Scene Description: a band
BU01: design element - motifs - triangle
Scene Description: a band
INFORMATION
FontID: 08269CER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Vicenç de can Cerdà
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located near the farmhouse of Can Cerdà, in the municipality of FontRubí (follow the road from Vilafranca del P. towards Igualada to the deviation to Guardiola, then towards Santa Maria de Bellver)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 118, 527): baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin ornamented with bands of geometrical motifs: one is zig-zag, another triangles and yet another or rectangular motifs; at the uppe basin side a flat moulding. Listed with measurements in Cruañes-Virella (1984)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 18.5 [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 82 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 119 cm
Basin Depth: 58 cm
Basin Total Height: 67 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 527) after Cruañes-Virella (1984)
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-