Alquezar / Alquézar / Castrum Alqueçaris
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 1 July 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle
Scene Description: sveral; one of them badly damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Capiteles románicos (s. XII) recuperados de la primitiva iglesia."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jl FilpoC, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph February 2011 by Jl FilpoC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colegiata_de_Santa_María_la_Mayor._Claustro_(s._XII).jpg] [accessed 9 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Claustro de la colegiata de Santa María la Mayor de Alquézar (Huesca, España). El capitel en primer plano representa una Trinidad tricéfala insuflando la vida en Adán"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Sada, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 15 September 2014 by Lourdes Sada [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colegiata_de_Alquézar_-_Claustro.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Galería oriental decorada con pinturas de los siglos XV al XVIII"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 20 October 2012 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colegiata_de_Santa_María_de_Alquézar._Claustro.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2021]
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view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "En la arcada, sepulcro de desconocido personaje."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jl FilpoC, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 13 December 2018 by Jl FilpoC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panda_norte_del_claustro_de_la_Colegiata_de_Alquézar.jpg] [accessed 13 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of church exterior - cloister - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista panorámica del conjunto"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sestrales, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 14 February 2010 by Sestrales [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castillo_y_Colegiata_de_Alquézar.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2021]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Collegiata di santa Maria, Alquézar, Huesca, Spagna"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cruccone, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2011 by Cruccone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alquezar_colegiata.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2021]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce recived (e-mail of 25/5/2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of font
Scene Description: showing the evident damage; it appears to have devbeloped as a chemical deterioration of the stone
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of font
Scene Description: showing the evident damage; it appears to have devbeloped as a chemical deterioration of the stone
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 October 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 03913ALQ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor de Alquézar
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 22145 Alquézar, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off the A-1233, on a steep hill overlooking the canyon of the Vero rive, E of Huesca capital, N of Barbastro. Access the Colegiata on foot from the village itself.
Ecclesiastic Region: 0° 1′ 40.5″ E
Font Location in Church: Inside, in a chapel off the cloister
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: The church -located overlooking an strategic mountain pass between the Sobrarbe and Somontano regions- was built on a Muslim castle erected in the 9th century by Jalaf ibn Arad; it was then conquered by Sancho Ramírez in 1067 and given a royal 'fuero' to build a royal chapel under the advocation of St. Mary the Virgin. There is a set of six capitals of the otherwise unknown 'Maestro de Alquézar' that are truly exceptional (On-site notes and Cobreros, 1993)
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: a much damaged and now abandoned font in an unused side chapel off the cloister of the collegiate church of Alquézar; it is a rounded, tub-shaped sandstone font, probably from the date of the latter part of the cloister, the 14th century, or that of the church itself, the 16th century although it looks older; it is rather plain except for two encircled potent crosses and a thin rope moulding near the base; the base is squat and totally plain; it has a flat and plain wooden cover. [NB: the parish priest who looks after the collegiate church, very helpful and knowledgeable about the church in general could not provide any information on the font other than it has been abandoned longer than anyone remembers]. A later [2004] photograph of this font shows that the object has been drastically cleaned since our 1999 sight of it. Noted in Múñiz López & García Alvarez-Busto (2007)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.172268, 0.027917
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 10′ 20.17″ N, 0° 1′ 40.5″ E
UTM: 31T 254513 4673180
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 76 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*
Basin Depth: 50 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Measurements are approximate [on-site, July 1999]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: Plain flat lid not contemporary with the font.
REFERENCES
Cobreros, Jaime, Románico en España (Guías Periplo), Madrid: Incafo, 1993
Múñiz López, Iván, "La pila bautismal de tradición prerrománica de Castrillón (Asturias): el control señorial del bautismo", 2 (2007), Territorio, sociedad y poder, 2007, pp. 265-274; p. 272