Malla
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Images and Permission received (e-mail of 7 July 2004)
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several all over the font
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Copyright Instructions: Images and Permission received (e-mail of 7 July 2004)
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: at the corners of the square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2004
Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Images and Permission received (e-mail of 7 July 2004)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 09840MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Església Parroquial de San Vicenç de Malla / San Vicente de Malla
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche of the nave since the 1980s
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Vincent
Church Notes: documented 1052 as parisch church; modified 14thC; restored 20thC
Church Address: Masia els Fochs, 12, 08519 Malla, Barcelona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 938 80 07 35
Site Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the C-17, 5 km S of Vic/Vich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vich
Additional Comments: recycled font: served for 200 years as base for a crucifix outside the temple; restored to its original function in the 1980s -- MUST USE -- have photos & permission -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font dated localy to the 16th century. It appears monolithic and cylindrical with several levels of mouldings, and ends down in a square lower base on which there are leaf motifs at the four corners; strange-looking dome-shaped metal cover; modern. The current [2004] priest informs that the font was located for two hundred years outside the church, upturned, serving as the base for a crucifix; at the time of the restoration of this church in the 1980s, it was brought inside the church and restored to its original function; the same priest suggested a 16th-century dating for the object.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the information on and photographs of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 436509 4637537
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.887214, 2.234722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 53′ 13.97″ N, 2° 14′ 5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]