Santianes de Pravia No. 1
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view of church interior - altar - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Scene Description: the font is behind the wooden railing
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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
Scene Description: the font is behind the wooden railing, in the south aisle, at the back
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information
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © García de Castro Valdés, 1995
Image Source: B&W photograph in García de Castro (1995)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02461SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Date: 774-783 A.D.
Font Century and Period/Style: 8th century (late?), Visigothic? / Pre-Romanesque?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the S nave, by the entrance to the tower.
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Notes: The pre-Romanesque church is said to date to king Silo (774-783)
Church Address: 33129 Santianes de Pravia, Asturias, Spain
Site Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias, Spain, Europe
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 Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 734516 4820646
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.50195, -6.099144
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 30′ 7.02″ N, 6° 5′ 56.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (chiefly)
Font Shape: sunken font, square
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 264
- Alvarez Martínez, María Soledad, El románico en Asturias, Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 1999, p. 264
- Arbeiter, Achim, Christliche Denkmäler des frühen Mittelalters: vom 8. Bis 11. Jahrhundert, Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, [1990?], p. 218, 224, ill. on p. 100
- García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995, p. 242-243, 246 and pl. 156
- 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; p. 273