Ripoll No. 1
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Results: 14 records
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Scene Description: on the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2005
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2005
view of church exterior
Scene Description: the monastery ca. 1835
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Josep Pellicer i Pagès; La Crema de Ripoll, vera narració (1835) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ripoll-fanatisme-laic-1835-3.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Enfo, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 January 2011 by Enfo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:64_Monestir_de_Santa_Maria_de_Ripoll.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2012 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_de_Ripoll._Fachada.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria Rosa Ferre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2013 by Maria Rosa Ferre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monestir_de_Santa_Maria_de_Ripoll_-_91.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Canaan, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2008 by Canaan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ripoll05.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church interior
Scene Description: the interior of the monastery church ca. 1835
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Josep Pellicer i Pagès; La Crema de Ripoll, vera narració (1835) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ripoll-fanatisme-laic-1835-3.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria Rosa Ferre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2013 by Maria Rosa Ferre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monestir_de_Santa_Maria_de_Ripoll_-_8.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with two large holy-water stoups at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150905013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with two large holy-water stoups at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria Rosa Ferre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2013 by Maria Rosa Ferre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monestir_de_Santa_Maria_de_Ripoll_-_33.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2005
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2005
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 28, 2005
view of stoup
Scene Description: one of the modern stoups in the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jordiferrer, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2012 by Jordiferrer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_del_monestir_de_Ripoll_-_00.JPG] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 11197RIP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Monestir i parròquia de Santa Maria de Ripoll
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Plaça de l’Abat Oliba s/n - 17500 Ripoll, Gerona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 972 704203 -- informacio@monestirderipoll.cat
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located on the N152, about 60 km WNW of Gerona capital
Century and Period: 9th century, Early Romanesque
Church Notes: founded in 888 by count Guifré el Pilós
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font supposedly of neo-Romanesque style donated by the Centre Escursioniste de Catalunya to the Monastery Church in 1893; the basin is bucket shaped with deeply carved figures under round arches; the upper basin side has an inscription with the date and name of the donor association, and a zigzag below it; the basin well is of the modern type: one half is a drain-less demi-lune well, while the other has a small circular well with a drain. Raised on an octagonal plinth. No cover. The inscription on the modern font reads: "CENTRE ESCURSIONISTE DE CATALUNYA A SANTA MARIA DE RIPOLL EN LO ANY D[omi]NI MDCCCXCIII"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.201531, 2.190747
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 12′ 5.51″ N, 2° 11′ 26.69″ E
UTM: 31T 433191 4672469
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 105 cm [large basin] -- 38 cm [small basin]
Diameter (includes rim): 130 cm*
Basin Depth: 22 cm [large basin] -- 12 cm [small basin]
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI *[of the basin as a whole] [NB: measurements of the modern font]