Tossa de Montbui No. 2

Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - knob - 4

Scene Description: or, are they heads? [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: the extension of the knobs/heads down the sides of the underbowl

design element - motifs - rope moulding

view of stoup

Scene Description: it appears to be attached to the wall in this photograph

view of stoup

Scene Description: seen free-standing here, raised on a short shaft

INFORMATION

FontID: 22803TOS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Maria de la Tossa de Montbui / Església de Santa Maria de Gràcia
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: La Tossa de Montbui, 08710 Santa Margarida de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the C-37, in the municipality and just 1 km W of Santa Margarida de Montbui, about 5 km WSW of Igualada, 40-50 km NW of Barcelona capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Barcelona
Historical Region: Conca d'Òdena, Comarca de l'Anoia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entranceway
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Merce Roca Serra for her photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: pre-Romanesque church of the late-10thC [987?]; modified ca. 1032; 16thC portal; served as parish church until 1614; restored 1954
Holy-water stoup consisting of a square-to-round basin decorated with four knobs (?) at 90-degree angles [NB: the 'knobs' could be or have been human heads, but are now very worn/eroded] where the lower part extends down the sides as piping; the inner basin wel is round; at the bottom of the basin is a rope moulding all around; plain circular stem; square lower base; the stoup is attched to or mounted on a short column. [NB: the stoup appears to heve been re-set lately: one photograph shows it attached to the wall whereas another shows it mounted on a short column and detached from the wall -- cf. ImagesArea]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.56, 1.58
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 33′ 36″ N, 1° 34′ 48″ E
UTM: 31T 381591 4601899

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining