Villarrué / Rins de Vilarrue / Rins de Vilarrué

INFORMATION

Font ID: 04907RIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Esteban de Villarrué

Font Location in Church: This could be a font located now in a nearby church-museum in Laspaules

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen

Church Notes: 12thC church

Church Address: C. Única, 12, 22471 Villarrué, Huesca, Spain

Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the N-260, in the municipality and N of Laspaules, 14 km E of Castejón de Sos

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Barbastro–Monzón

Historical Region: Ribagorza

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed and illustrated in Gavín (1977, v. 2: A. Rib. 268) as a Romanesque baptismal font in the church of Sant Andreu in Rins de Vilarrué, in the municipality of Laspaules/Les Paüls. It is a rather crude work; the quasi-cylindrical basin has a high-relief scalloped pattern ornamenting the basin sides; the base is partly hidden in the illustration but appears to be round and plain. Plain flat wooden cover. [Montserrat Estela, Barcelona, Spain, informs us -May 2002- that the ruins of the fortified chapel is all that is left now and that there is no church of Sant Andreu in Rins de Vilarrue; the font may have been moved to nearby Laspaules]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 301948 4705822

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.479428, 0.590472

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 28′ 45.94″ N, 0° 35′ 25.7″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

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