Valdeperes No. 1 / Valldeperes

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BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arch-heads

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: appears to be part of the original basin block [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of base

Scene Description: a later replacement [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 May 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2008 by Templesf [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Esgl%C3%A9sia_de_Santa_Fe_de_Valldeperes.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 May 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 17 May 2012)

view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 May 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the metal lock

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 May 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 17 May 2012)

INFORMATION

FontID: 18055VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Fe / Església de Santa Fe

Church Patron Saints: St. Faith [aka Faith of Conques, Foy]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Navàs, between Sallent and Puig-Reig, 20 km N of Manresa, in El Bages. Accessible also via the C-55 from Cardona

Historical Region: El Bages

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: Local information dates the church to 1139, much modified

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font (?) consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a ribbed pattern, the ribs capped with round arch-heads, raised on a later baluster-shaped pedestal base; the top of the pedestal base, which is narrow and moulded, appears to be part of the original basin block, but the stem is a much later piece; the upper rim has been reinfiorced with a metal strap. The basin is very weathered probably from a long exposure to the elements in the past. Curious font cover of dome-shape design, consisting of a metal frame around what appears to be a stone [or is it wood?] surface decorated with scalloped pattern with bands of nail-head; large orb-and-Latin cross finial; date unknown. The church itself is said to be documented since 1139. It is quite possible that the font was altered in the 17th-century reforms to the church, as the pedestal base conforms to the designs of the period. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church] [cf. Index entry for Valdeperes No. 2 for a medieval holy-water stoup in this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31 3950756 46408734

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Material: [cf. FontNotes],

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]