Gabas No. 1 / Gabás
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind
INFORMATION
FontID: 02648GAB
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santiago
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: C. Lorenzo Ferrer, 25, 22470 Gabás, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: About 30 kms west of Bonansa on the N-260, at Bisaurri, take the left turn smaller road; Gabas is 3 kms down that road.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Romanesque pedestal font; below the upper rim it has a blind arcade simulating ribs on the basin side; the narrow cylindrical base has concave fluting from top to bottom as ornament. On the upper surface of the basin a metal brace for the font cover is visible (a/p ill. in Iglesias Costa, 1985 )
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.482919,
0.4905
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 28′ 58.51″ N,
0° 29′ 25.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Iglesias Costa, Manuel, Arquitectura románica, siglos X-XI, XII, XIII, Barcelona: Akribos, 1985