Matadars / Matadarcos

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2012 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 19 June 2012)

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2011 by PCB75 [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_de_Matadars] [accessed 16 June 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: now at the MNAC, Barcelona

Image Source: digital photograph in Antonio Mora Verges' blog [http://coneixercatalunya.blogspot.ca/2010/12/santa-maria-de-matadarsbages.html] [accessed 16 June 2012]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 March 2012 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 16 June 2012)

INFORMATION

FontID: 18066MAT

Church/Chapel: Església de Santa María de Matadars [aka Santa Maria de Marquet]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: In the grounds of the Masia de Marquet, Pont de Vilomara, Barcelona prov.

Country Name: Spain

Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located 1 km from Pont de Vilomara, in the municipality of Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort

Historical Region: In the Bages region

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a corner

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] and to Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net], for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: the original church here is said to go back to 956, a Mozarabic rural chapel. The MNAC has a 12thC Madonna from here

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of two volumes, although it may consist of a single block; round tapering shape, with a break to slightly wider half-way down; now cemented into a corner of the nave, but not known whether that was the original location; the upper half has a square cut-off area near the upper rim, originally intended for the cover lock, but not known whether ever used for that purpose as it does not appear to have any ferrous remains in place. No present cover in evidence.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.692778, 1.873056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 41′ 34″ N, 1° 52′ 23″ E

UTM: 31T 406221 4616280

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining