Sos del Rey Catolico No. 1 / Sos del Rey Católico

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Results: 16 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: around the lower base, in low-relief

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Conchi Otazua Mendizabal, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2009 by Conchi Otazua Mendizabal

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received -via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 Jan. 2010)

design element - motifs - piping - 4

Scene Description: between the lobes

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]

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design element - motifs - scallop - 8

Scene Description: large lones surrounding the bottom of the underbowl, like the leaves of an artichoke

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Conchi Otazua Mendizabal, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2009 by Conchi Otazua Mendizabal

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received -via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 Jan. 2010)

design element - motifs - spur - 4

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Conchi Otazua Mendizabal, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 December 2009 by Conchi Otazua Mendizabal

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received -via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 Jan. 2010)

symbol - cross

Scene Description: an incised cross on one of the lobes; probably a later addition

view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 December 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 December 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 December 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 December 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 December 2003 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 December 2003 by BSI

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce (e-mail of Sept. 20, 2002)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Conchi Otazua Mendizabal, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 December 2009 by Conchi Otazua Mendizabal

Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received -via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 Jan. 2010)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: ca. 1957?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Abbad Rios, 1957

Image Source: Abbad Rios (1957, vol. 2: fig. 1615)

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03604SOS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban y San Salvador
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen & Our Saviour
Church Location: Calle Padre Mariano Jáuregui, 4, 50680 Sos del Rey Católico, Zaragoza, Spain -- Tel.: +34 948 88 82 03
Country Name: Spain
Location: Zaragoza, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located down the A-127 from Sangüesa, not far from the border with Navarra.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Jaca
Historical Region: Cinco Villas
Font Location in Church: In the new baptismal chapel added in the mid-16th century [since the 1960s -- earlier in the SW corner of the nave]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at nearby Navardún and Barués, and the Catalan font at Castello de Farfanya, could be related in type, design and dating
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to D. Máximo Garcés Abadía, parish priest of San Esteban, for his help in documenting this font and access to the objects -- We are also grateful to to Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com], Conchi Otazua Mendizabal and Cristina Sanchez, for their photographs of this font
Church Notes: For a detailed virtual visit of this church see A. García Omedes' www.romanicoaragones.com
Described and illustrated in Abbad Ríos (1957) as a quatrefoiled cauldron-like basin with large scallops -resembling the leave of an artichoke- at the underbowl and dated to the 13th century. The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (1980) erroneously gives the same date and description for both the font and the holy-water stoup: "Las pilas de San Esteban de Sos son también del siglo XIII, con soporte y pie con bolas, y copa en forma de cáliz, con amplias hojas." [cf. Index entry for Sos del Rey C... No. 2 for information on this holy-water stoup] Garcés Abadía (2001) states that this font is made of two separate parts: the 12th-century square base and the 8th-century basin. He adds that, according to popular tradition supported by some documents ["algunos documentos"], Ferdinand of Aragon, later to marry Isabel of Castille, was first baptised in this font on March 10, 1453, and later received a solemn baptism in La Seo of Zaragoza on February 11, 1453, almost a year later [NB: during a recent [Dec. 31, 2003] interview with this author -who is also the parish priest at San Esteban- he informed BSI that the font had been originally located at the southwest corner of the nave, by the old small door that existed there and that is now blocked; the font was moved in the 1960s to one of the new chapels created in the 16th century when the building was expanded and several chapels were created outside of the older nave, between the buttresses]. At the time of the Catálogo..., [i.e., ca. 1957], it was mounted atop a large three-step plinth, whereas in the recent [2001] illustration in Garcés Abadía, the same font appears mounted on a single rectangular plinth which resembles the priest-stones on which many English fonts stand. The dating of the basin to such an early date is probably too ambitious, being more likely of the 12th or 13th century, or even the 14th century. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Aragón (Zaragoza, vol. 2, 2010)

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 646619 4706541

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage Notes: The hole is now [2003] blocked
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm* / 112 cm**
Basin Total Height: 72 cm**
Height of Base: 20 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / 92 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Garcés Abadía (2001: 46)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: quatrefoiled shape, like the top of the basin; flat; date unknown

REFERENCES

Gran enciclopedia aragonesa, Zaragoza: Union Aragonesa del Libro, 1980-1983
Abbad Ríos, Francisco, Catálogo monumental de España: Zaragoza (2 v.), Madrid: Instituto Diego Velázquez, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1957
Garcés Abadía, Máximo, Sos del Rey Católico: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban, León: Edilesa, 2001