Santa Cruz de la Seros No. 2 / Santa Cruz de la Serós
Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 June 2016)
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2016 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 June 2016)
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_la_Serós_Santa_María_311.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_la_Serós_Santa_María_Südportal_356.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ziegler175, 2006
Image Source: digital image from a 2006 scan of a photograph taken in August 1992 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SW-FSantaCruzDeLaSerós4.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt and tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_la_Serós_Santa_María_342.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_la_Serós_Santa_María_5348.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
![Source caption: "Portal der Westfassade, Tympanon, Darstellung: zwei Löwen und Chrismon; lateinische Inschriften auf dem Rand des Kreises (Übersetzung: „Ich bin die einfache Tür, tretet ein durch mich, Gläubige, ich bin die Quelle des Lebens, habt mehr Durst nach mir als nach Wein, alle, die ihr in diesen seligen Tempel der Jungfrau tretet.“) und auf dem Türsturz (Übersetzung: „Bessere dich bevor du Christus anrufst.“) (s. Erklärungstext in der Kirche)" -- Transcription of the Latin inscription by A. Garcia-Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/23-SerosStaMaria2.htm] [accessed 29 June 2016]: on the circle of the chrismon "+IANVA SVM P-PES-P PER ME TRANSITE FIDELES FONS EGO SVM VITE PLUS ME QVAN VINA SITITE VIRGINIS HOC TEMPLUM QVIS(QVIS) PENETRARE BEATUM"; below: "CORRIGE TE PRIMUM VALEAS QUO POSCERE CHRISTUM"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160629009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Portal der Westfassade, Tympanon, Darstellung: zwei Löwen und Chrismon; lateinische Inschriften auf dem Rand des Kreises (Übersetzung: „Ich bin die einfache Tür, tretet ein durch mich, Gläubige, ich bin die Quelle des Lebens, habt mehr Durst nach mir als nach Wein, alle, die ihr in diesen seligen Tempel der Jungfrau tretet.“) und auf dem Türsturz (Übersetzung: „Bessere dich bevor du Christus anrufst.“) (s. Erklärungstext in der Kirche)" -- Transcription of the Latin inscription by A. Garcia-Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/23-SerosStaMaria2.htm] [accessed 29 June 2016]: on the circle of the chrismon "+IANVA SVM P-PES-P PER ME TRANSITE FIDELES FONS EGO SVM VITE PLUS ME QVAN VINA SITITE VIRGINIS HOC TEMPLUM QVIS(QVIS) PENETRARE BEATUM"; below: "CORRIGE TE PRIMUM VALEAS QUO POSCERE CHRISTUM"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_la_Serós_Santa_María_343.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the old font in the context of the Gothic retable -- Source caption: "Pfarrkirche und ehemalige Klosterkirche Santa María in Santa Cruz de la Serós in der Provinz Huesca (Aragón/Spanien), Retabel von 1490 mit Alabasterfigur Madonna mit Kind aus dem 15. Jahrhundert."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Cruz_de_la_Serós_Santa_María_Retablo_323.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2016]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: View of the stoup-cum-column and capitals ca. 1974
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oliván Balle, 1974
Image Source: digital scan of a B&W ilustration in Oliván Balle (1974: 128)
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view of stoup - detail
Scene Description: View of the stoup ca. 1974
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oliván Balle, 1974
Image Source: digital scan of a B&W ilustration in Oliván Balle (1974: 128)
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view of stoup - detail
Scene Description: View of the column and capitals on the stoup ca. 1974
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oliván Balle, 1974
Image Source: digital scan of a B&W ilustration in Oliván Balle (1974: 128)
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view of stoup - north side
Scene Description: The composite stoup stands now on its own, separated from the column and added capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2016 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 June 2016)
view of stoup - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2016 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 June 2016)
view of stoup - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2016 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 June 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 03603SER
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María de Santa Cruz de la Serós / Templo conventual de la Santa Cruz [former Benedicine convent]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 22792 Santa Cruz de la Serós, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off the A-1603, just N of the Real Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, 15 km WSW of Jaca, 90 km from Huesca capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Jaca
Font Location in Church: Located in the centre of the atrium ca, 1974 - later moved to its present location inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite stoup], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: two such pillar-stoups in La Salle-les-Alpes
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez for her photographs of this church, font and stoup
Church Notes: Santa Maria is first documented 1070, but may have existed earlier [a document dated 1061 is believed to be false] -- According to Oliván Baile (1974: 122ff), the church is all that remains from the old monastery founded in the late-11thC in the time of countess Doña Sancha, sister to the king of Aragon and great protrectress of the monastery where she was buried at her death.
Font Notes:
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Spectacular feat of recycling, is how this stoup has been described: two Romanesque capitals, inverted, one with foliage ornamentation, the other with human figures, on which is piled a hemispheric basin, a tall stem and, then, two other capitals, like the ones below, one with foliage ornamentation, the other with vegetal motifs [a/p description in the Gran enciclopedia aragonesa, 1980-1983, v. 10, p. 2667]. Described and illustrated also in Oliván Baile (1974: 126-129): the stoup itself serves as the base for a cylindrical pillar which goes from its basin to the beam of the choir. The author describes the composite work as a beautiful object and suggests that the parts date to the foundation of the monastery, the capitals probably from the ancient -now disappeared- cloister or another part of the original building. [NB: a similar stoup-cum-pillar exists also in the parish church of St-Marcellin in La Salle-les-Alpes, Hautes-Alpes dept. -- cf. Index entry for Salle-les-Alpes Nos. 1 & 2]. The composite structure existed still at the time of Olivan Balle's report [i.e., ca, 1974] but the stoup was separated from the column at some point in the recent past; the stoup stands now [2002] by itself. [cf. Index entry for Santa Cruz de la Seros No. 1 for a medieval font in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.522423, -0.673873
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 31′ 20.72″ N, 0° 40′ 26.75″ W
UTM: 30T 691061 4710542
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: six?
Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Gran enciclopedia aragonesa, Zaragoza: Union Aragonesa del Libro, 1980-1983
Oliván Baile, Francisco, Los monasterios de San Juan de la Peña y Santa Cruz de la Serós, Huesca, Los: estudio histórico-artíistico, Zaragoza: [El autor], Imp. Talleres Editoriales de "El Noticiero", 1974