Baneras / Bagnaries / Bañeras del Penedés / Banyeres del Penedès

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view of church exterior - east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ábsides"

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/tarragona_Banyeres_del_Penedès.pdf] [accessed 11 April 2025]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Santa Maria del Priorat de Banyeres (Banyeres del Penedès)"

Image Source: digital photograph 19 September 2010 by Angela Llop [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_del_Priorat_de_Banyeres_(Banyeres_del_Penedès)_-_1.jpg

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view of church interior

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/tarragona_Banyeres_del_Penedès.pdf] [accessed 11 April 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25853BAN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Maria del Priorat [aka Santa Maria de Banyeres / La Mare de Déu del Priorat]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Cami del Priorat, Banyeres del Penedès, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Tarragona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located off the TP-2124, NW of the N-340, 6 km NNE of El Vendrell, about 16 km SW of Villafranca del P.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Tarragona

Historical Region: Baix Penedès

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century (?), Romanesque?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico

Church Notes: 11th-12thC Benedictine priory of which the church dedicated to St Mary remains; present 17thC parish church dedicated to St Eulalia of Merida;

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The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/tarragona_Banyeres_del_Penedès.pdf] [accessed 11 April 2025] describes and illustrates the old priory church but mentions no font in it -- assumed disappeared]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.2731, 1.58139

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 16′ 23.16″ N, 1° 34′ 53″ E

UTM: 31T 381176 4570045