Mediona

INFORMATION

FontID: 08270MED

Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)

Church/Chapel: Església de Santa Maria

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: Spain

Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located NNW of Vilafranca de P., in the north of the Alt Penedès region, at the feet of the Serra Mediona

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

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Cruañes-Virella (1984) as a the fragment of the bottom of baptismal font from the church of Santa Maria de Mediona; the reconstruction in this source shows the object as roughly bucket-shaped and without a base.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: [fragment]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*

Basin Depth: 41 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Notes on Measurements: Cruañes-Virella (1984) cited in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 527) *[all measurements of this font are estimates in the 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-