Roda de Isabena / Roda de Isábena / Roda d'Isàvena

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 January 2016)
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - double arch-head - trefoiled tip-ends
design element - motifs - ball
design element - motifs - flat moulding
design element - patterns - ribbed
design element - patterns - ribbed
view of church exterior - cloister
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
view of church exterior - south porch
view of church exterior - south portal
view of church exterior - south portal - door
view of church exterior - southeast end
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - crypt
view of church interior - crypt - detail

Scene Description: the Childhood of Christ programme in one of the crypts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 6 January 2016)
view of church interior - crypt - detail
view of font
view of font in context

Scene Description: in the context of the main crypt and the nave above
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amador, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2009 by Amador [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RodaIsavena-catedralRoda-4749.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
view of font in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 02646ROD
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Catedral de San Vicente / Sant Vincenç
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent
Church Location: Plaza Arquitecto Pons Sorolla, 22482 Roda de Isábena, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off the HU-940 road from Graus to Bonansa, 25 kms N of Graus, on the left bank of the Isabena river, in the municipality of Isábena/Isàvena
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón [formerly in its own diocese; later in the diocese of Lerida/Lleida]
Historical Region: Ribagorza / Ribagorça
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the central nave
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: church originally 9thC destroyed by Al-Mansur and Al-Malik; later church 11thC, completed in the 12thC; south portal of the 13thC; porch and tower added in the 18thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The present font here is illustrated in Iglesias Costa (1985). No mention of a font in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVI: 403), as nothing is known of the font of the original 11th-12th century church here. The present font consists of a round, almost cylindrical, basin with a slight rounded on the underbowl; the sides are ornamented with, from the top down, a moulding, a row of ball motif, a set of round arch-heads with a three-ball ending at the lower tips, and a pattern of broad ribs that wrap around the underbowl [NB: with the exception of the ribs, it resembles the ornamentation on the font at Ozcoidi, in Navarra]. The base is a plain cylinder that rests directly on the ground. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.291247,
0.528535
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 17′ 28.49″ N,
0° 31′ 42.73″ E
UTM: 31T 296249 4685072
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Iglesias Costa, Manuel, Arquitectura románica, siglos X-XI, XII, XIII, Barcelona: Akribos, 1985