Muro de Roda

INFORMATION

FontID: 02650MUR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Maria [aka Santa María de la Asunción]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 22336 Muro de Roda, Huesca, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: 3 kms south of the N-260 in the direction of Tierrantona

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

Romanesque pedestal font; the basin has broad ribs all the way to the protruding upper rim; the base is a narrow polygonal column with some ornamental detail (a/p ill. in Iglesias Costa, 1985 )

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.35936, 0.231083

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 21′ 33.7″ N, 0° 13′ 51.9″ 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