Figols in Bergueda / Fígols in Berguedà / Fígols de Berga
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21798FIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Església parroquial de Santa Cecília de Fígols
Church Patron Saints: St. Cecilia [aka Caecelia, Cecelia]
Church Location: 08698 Fígols, El Berguedà, Barcelona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the BV-4025, W of the C-16, 4 km NNW of Cercs, 10 km N of Berga, about 50 km N of Manresa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel
Historical Region: Comarca del Berguedà
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: orig. church 9thC; documented 11th and 12thC
Font Notes:
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Church inventoried in Invarquit [http://invarquit.cultura.gencat.cat/Cerca/Fitxa?index=0&consulta=&codi=3290] [accessed 1 September 2018]: "La trobem esmentada en l'acta de consagració de la seu d'Urgell (839). La retrobem diverses vegades durant el s. XI; així com el 1134, en motiu de la consagració de l'església per Pere, bisbe d'Urgell." [NB: there is no mention of a medieval font in it].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.180926, 1.835995
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 10′ 51.34″ N, 1° 50′ 9.58″ E
UTM: 31T 403873 4670520