Vilavedra No. 2 / Sant Martí i Sant Serni de Vilavedra

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08420VIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font / pica d'oli

Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Martí i Sant Serni [in ruins]

Font Location in Church: in the excavated ruins of this church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours & St. Sernin

Church Notes: Single-nave church; flourished in the 12th century

Church Address: 8QFH+JH, 25721 Santa Magdalena de Bellver, Lleida, Spain

Site Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located W of the C-16, in the municipality and about 6 km S of Bellver de Cerdaña/Cerdanya, just S of Ceborriu, in the Ingla river-valley

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona

Additional Comments: abandoned font: discovered in 1997 excavation of the site

Font Notes: Click to view

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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 399384 4686487

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.324129, 1.778883

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 19′ 26.86″ N, 1° 46′ 43.98″ E

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]

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