Text taken from the Cultural Heritage Maps website of the Provincial Council of Barcelona. patrimonicultural.diba.cat/element/sant-joan-samora
Romanesque church with a nave, rectangular in plan with a pointed barrel vault and reinforced by two lateral arches. It is oriented to the east by the head with a semicircular apse, opened by a presbyteral arch. The roof is of gabled Arabic tiles.
The main west-facing facade has a large entrance portal with two archivolts with impost, semi-circular arches with adobe stones and the entire vault bordered with ridges. The bell tower is of spade and rises on the wall of the facade. It has two semi-circular arched openings, crowned by a gabled cornice. It is accessed by a stone staircase located on the south facade. The device is of well-cut and evenly spaced regular ashlars, but quite eroded. A chapel and the sacristy have been added to the north facade.
Inside, a baptismal font with a truncated conical section is preserved, sitting on a foot added later. The upper part is decorated with two large bordons. Just below is a raised border of inverted triangular motifs. In the lower part there is another bordón and, in an upward direction, another border in relief formed by a kind of spearhead or triangles finished with small rhombuses. The entire surface is covered with an earth-colored paint. The outside diameter of the mouth is 90 cm, the inside is 68 cm; the height is 89 cm and the depth of the bowl is 45 cm.

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