Santes Creus No. 2 / Aiguamurcia / Aiguamúrcia

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
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Results: 10 records
symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle - processional cross
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
view of church exterior in context
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 20043CAT
Church/Chapel: Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Santes Creus
Church Location: Plaza Jaume el Just, s/n, 43815 Aiguamúrcia-Santes Creus, Tarragona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 977 63 83 29
Country Name: Spain
Location: Tarragona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Font Location in Church: Inside the monastery church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, and to Merçé Rota Serra for their photographs of this font
Church Notes: Cistercian monastery founded 1158; construction started 1178; church consecrated 1211;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Bucket-shaped basin with single Greek processional cross on front side; there may have been a rope pattern around the upper rim but it is now too eroded for any certainty; placed directly on a wide circular plinth. Round, flat an plain modern font cover; modern, with modern anchoring cemented onto a former damaged spot.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
41.346261,
1.364246
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
41° 20′ 46.54″ N,
1° 21′ 51.29″ E
UTM: 31T 363151 4578487
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain