Barcelona No. 18, San Pedro de las Puellas / Sant Pere de les Puel·les / Sant Pere de les Puelles

The 1909 Almanaque del Diario de Barcelona (1908) reports, among the events of the Semana Trágica, the torching of this parish church on Tuesday, 27 [July 1909], and the disappearance of the baptismal font in which San José Oriol was baptised. This account does not provide details of this 'disappearance', but Corts I Blay (2009) cites 'Las Noticias' (9 August 1909) as source for the destruction of the font, stating that, unable to burn the Romanesque font of this church, they the attackers took it out to the parish square and destroyed with hammer blows [="la destruïren a martellades a la plaça de la parròquia" [Corts I Blay (ibid.) also mentions the 'Boletín del Colegio de Párrocos de Barcelona' (no. 1, 1910: 72-74) as source]. The font of this church is described and illustrated in Serra Sanmiquel (2007) as a cylindrical monlithic tub font, plain but for a thick roll moulding at the upper rim; this source suggests that it is earlier than the 16th century. [NB: it is not clear from the written sources which font was destroyed in the Semana Trágica [cf. supra]; the object now in the church is rather unusual for a font].