Sant Joan de les Abadesses No. 1 / San Juan de las Abadesas

Baptismal font consisting of a very large basin of two volumes: the upper cylindrical and the lower bucket-shaped, and a small base in the shape of a squat square pedestal. This font was ordered re-tooled by Puig i Cadafalch at the time of the 1911 restoration of the Monastery [Sant Joan had become a parish church after the so-called "desamortización de Mendizábal", the large confiscation of Church property named after the minister responsible for its administration]. The font has a modern glass dome covering. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, and to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for the images of this font] [cf. Index entry for Sant Joan les Abadesses No. 2 for the original font of the monastery church, now serving as water fountain in the cloister garden]