Breda No. 1 / Breda-La Selva
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Merce Rota Serra, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Merce Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Merce Rota Serra, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Merce Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - roundel
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Merce Rota Serra, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Merce Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Scene Description: "Claustro del Monasterio de Sant Salvador. Breda-la selva"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alberto-g-rovi, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2016 by Alberto-g-rovi
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - detail
Scene Description: "Monestir de Sant Salvador de Breda. Campanar romànic i capçalera de l'església"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JosepBC, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2017 by JosepBC
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 26285TGR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century (?), Romanesque?
Cognate Fonts: We are grateful to Merce Rota Serra for her photograph of this object
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial [antiguo monasterio benedictino] de San Salvador de Breda
Font Location in Church: Inside, in the nave
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Salvador,_Breda
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ
Church Notes: Benedictine monastery founded 1038; much modified since; renovated 2016 and 2020; now parochial church, a building chiefly from the Baroque period
Church Address: Pça. de l'Església, 1, 17400 Breda, Girona, Spain -- Tel.: +34 972 87 01 26
Site Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the GI-552, N of the C-35 and Hwy E-15, about 30 km NE of Mataro
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona
Historical Region: Comarca de La Selva
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda,_Spain
Font Notes:
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A font or stoup consisting of a roughly-cylindrical basin decrated with a blind arcade of round arches on the sides, and a row of roundles around the underbowl; raised on a plain depestal base. No cover present. The entry for Breda in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/BREDA.pdf] [accessed 8 April 2026] mentions no font or stoup in it.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Merce Rota Serra for her photograph of this object
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 463176 4621943
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.748453, 2.5571
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 44′ 54.43″ N, 2° 33′ 25.56″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round