Santianes de Pravia No. 1

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Scene Description: the font is behind the wooden railing, in the south aisle, at the back

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font in context

Image Source: B&W photograph in García de Castro (1995)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02461SAN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist

Church Location: 33129 Santianes de Pravia, Asturias, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias

Directions to Site: Located on the W banks of the Nalon river, about 25 kms WSW of Aviles, 4 km from Pravia

Historical Region: Oviedo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the S nave, by the entrance to the tower.

Date: 774-783 A.D.

Century and Period: 8th century (late?), Visigothic? / Pre-Romanesque?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font

Church Notes: The pre-Romanesque church is said to date to king Silo (774-783)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A roughly square sunken font situated in the southwest corner of the church, near the entrance to the tower, was discovered during the restoration of this church carried out under the direction of José Menéndez Pidal y Alvarez, between August and October of 1975. The font is dated to the last quarter of the 8th century (Arbeiter, [199?], p. 218, 224, ill. on p. 100). Alvarez Martínez (1999: 264) describes it simply as an example of baptismal "piscina" of a style/period prior to the local Romanesque. García de Castro (1995: 242-243 and pl. 156), whose work documents and illustrates the font, points out the importance of this font of the 8th century, as the 'missing link' between the paleo-Christian piscinae-type fonts of the 7th century and the free-standing fonts documented from the 9th century onwards. [cf. Index entry for Santianes de Pravia No. 2 for a late-Romanesque baptismal font located in the right nave]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.50195, -6.099144

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 30′ 7.02″ N, 6° 5′ 56.92″ W

UTM: 29T 734516 4820646

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (chiefly)

Font Shape: square (sunken font)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: 7.5 cm in diameter [cf. Measurements]

Diameter (inside rim): 65 x 65 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 92 x 92 cm

Basin Depth: 28 cm [from the step]

Trapezoidal Basin: 57 x 60 cm [unknown where these belong to]

Notes on Measurements: García de Castro (1995: 242-243) [measurements also available from http://iglesiasantianes.galeon.com] -- ** [measurement courtesy of Mikel Unanue]

REFERENCES

Alvarez Martínez, María Soledad, El románico en Asturias, Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 1999

Arbeiter, Achim, Christliche Denkmäler des frühen Mittelalters: vom 8. Bis 11. Jahrhundert, Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, [1990?]

García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995

Múñiz López, Iván, "La pila bautismal de tradición prerrománica de Castrillón (Asturias): el control señorial del bautismo", 2 (2007), Territorio, sociedad y poder, 2007, pp. 265-274; r["References"]