Hortons No. 2 / Sant Joan Samora / Sant Llorenç d'Hortons
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08272HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Joan Samora
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Sant Llorenç d'Hortons, NE of Vilafranca del P., in the NE reaches of the Alt Penedès (the church is located in the Casa Gran farmhouse)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel on the left of the old Romanesque nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as an interesting baptismal font from the old Romanesque church; the basin is roughly bucket-shaped, with two roll mouldings near the upper rim, followed down by a band of inverted triangle motif; lower still, a row of tiangle motif tipped with romboids; at the lower end of the basin side it has a large roll moulding; it is painted in a brownish colour. Listed with measurements in Cruañes-Virella (1984), with a cylindrical base. Described and illustrated in Serra Sanmiquel (2007) with a square pyramidal base, but mentions a circular base from an earlier photograph pf the font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 11 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 68 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm
Basin Depth: 45 cm
Height of Base: 28 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm
Notes on Measurements: Cruañes-Virella (1984) cited in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XIX: 527) and in Serra Sanmiquel (2007)
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-
Serra Santmiquel [sic], Joan, "Dues piles baptismals romàniques molt particulars", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 18-19; p. 18-19 and ill. on p. 18