Vilavedra No. 2
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B01: symbol - cross - Latin
Scene Description: tall one; on the west side of the object, a narrow side
INFORMATION
FontID: 08420VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Martí i Sant Serni [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours & St. Sernin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Bellver de Cerdaña/Cerdanya, just south of Ceborriu, in the Ingla river-valley
Font Location in Church: in the excavated ruins of this church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font / pica d'oli
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XXVII: 193-194): monolithic limestone oil font probably of the 12th century, found in the excavations of the site carried out in the mid-1990s; the object has an overall trapezoidal shape, rectangular of plant and wider at the top, where it as a narrower rim which probably had a wooden lid oriiginally; the front side -west- has a large Latin cross incised on it [NB: cf. Index entry for Vilavedra No. 1 for the baptismal font found in the same site]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular (trapezoidal)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Basin Total Height: 75 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 112 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XXVII: 193) *[ measurements at the widest area]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-