page_title: Sant Joan, Foixà
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Sant Joan, Foixà / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Fris de migdia, Sant Joan de Foixà
context_page_description: Sant Joan de Foixà is a twelfth-century Romanesque church located in the municipality of Foixà, Spain.
context_section_description: The late Gothic church is complete with nave, semicircular apse and lateral chapels.
  The entrance features a pointed frontispiece with four sloping archivolts supported by fluted columns with original capitals, a lintel and a pediment. The capital on the left features a floral pattern while the right, two devouring monsters, a type of winged lion that swallow a person whole. The lintel at the center features a small rhomboid emblem in bas-relief depicting tools of the trade of the master of the house.
  In the leaf of the door the lock is in the shape of a snake, found in many churches in the country. The shape, rooted in the Romanesque period, lasted well until into the Baroque period.
  The interior boasts adorned archways depicting fantastic animals, the comic and caricaturesque faces of people and floral ornaments, a remarkably popular decoration. At the center of the façade is a simple rose window. The flooring is tiled throughout.
  In 1624 priest Andrew Madiona was interred inside the church. In the 18th century two members of two important families were also laid to rest there: Joan Perich and Tomas Torres.
caption: The devouring monsters.
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