Santes Creus No. 2 / Aiguamurcia / Aiguamúrcia
Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
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Results: 10 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2015 by Joost Limburg
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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle - processional cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2015 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DagafeSQV, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2013 by DagafeSQV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detall_capitell_3.JPG] [accessed 19 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2011 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santes_Creus,_monestir-PM_66243.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kriegerkalle, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2007 by Kriegerkalle [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santes_Creus_Cloister_Owl_2.JPG] [accessed 19 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kriegerkalle, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2007 by Kriegerkalle [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santes_Creus_Bagpiper.JPG] [accessed 19 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © AnTeMi, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Noveber 2004 by AnTeMi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santes_Creus_conjunto.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA 3.0
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Merçé Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2017 by Merçé Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 March 2020)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2015 by Joost Limburg
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josep Renalias, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2007 by Josep Renalias https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monestir_de_Santes_Creus_-_Interior_església.JPG] [accessed 19 September 2015
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20043CAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Santes Creus
Font Location in Church: Inside the monastery church
Church Notes: Cistercian monastery founded 1158; construction started 1178; church consecrated 1211;
Church Address: Plaza Jaume el Just, s/n, 43815 Aiguamúrcia-Santes Creus, Tarragona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 977 63 83 29
Site Location: Tarragona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the TV-2441, E of the TP-2002, in the municipality and 3 km N of Aiguamúrcia, 25-30 km N of Tarragona capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Tarragona
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, and to Merçé Rota Serra for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 363151 4578487
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.346261, 1.364246
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 20′ 46.54″ N, 1° 21′ 51.29″ E
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