Biescas de Bardaji / Biescas de Bardají / Biescas de Bardaixi / Biescas de Bardaixí

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BBU01: design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row of, within a scotia

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BBU02: design element - motifs - scotia

Scene Description: with a row of ball motif within

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LB01: design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row at each end of the stem of the base

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LB02: design element - patterns - torsade

Scene Description: on the stem of the base

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02689BIE

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Saturnino

Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus

Church Location: C. Única, 1D, 22451 Biescas, Huesca, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: Located near Campo, just E of the N-260 (at Campo take the local road to the right; follow for about 2 km, then the left turn and follow for another 2 km to Biescas de B.)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, opposite the entrance

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

Cognate Fonts: Very similar basin to the ones at Esplugas de Merli and Aguascaldas, in the same region

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Iglesias Costa (1985, vol. I/1: 143: the baptismal font [...] has a band of ball motifs; below it, ribs; 'solomonic' base [i.e., bulbous column] finished with the same ball motif [our translation]. The basin is of a type common in this area [cf. Index entries for Espluga de Merli and Aguascaldas, for instance]: the upper side is decorated with a row of ball motif, often within the cavity of a scotia; the rest of the basin outer surface is covered in a ribbed pattern simulating elongated round arches. This font has a base tha consists of torsade column with a row of ball motif at either end. [We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his image of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.4179, 0.420917

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 25′ 4.44″ N, 0° 25′ 15.3″ E

UTM: 31T 287803 4699399

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Iglesias Costa, Manuel, Arquitectura románica, siglos X-XI, XII, XIII, Barcelona: Akribos, 1985