Gramedo / Gramedo en Cabranes / Grameu / Graméu

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - triple

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Image Source: García de Castro Valdés, 1995 (pl. 153)

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view of basin - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 January 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - portal - detail

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view of church exterior - portal - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the wall-mounted stoup on the right (south) wall

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the wall-mounted stoup visible on the left (south) wall, near the south doorway

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: García de Castro Valdés, 1995 (pl. 153)

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view of font in context

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05031GRA

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Julián

Church Patron Saints: St. Julianus

Country Name: Spain

Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Cabranes, about 10 kms S of Villaviciosa

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Oviedo

Historical Region: Oviedo

Font Location in Church: In a baptismal annex, NW of the church [formerly located in the SW of the church]

Century and Period: 9th - 11th century, Pre-Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Same shape as the font from the church of San Pedro in Villanueva; others of the related type nearby: Puelles, Lillo and Priesca.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: Documentary evidence of this church appears to exist since 846 AD

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in García de Castro (1995): vat-shaped baptismal font ornamented with triple-moulding that covers only about one half of the circunference of the basin at the upper rim, prolonging vertically at the front (?); the rest of the moulding, at the back, may have been eroded with time, or it was never completed, especially if the font was originally located in a corner or partly embeded in a wall. The earlier location of the font in a southwest area of the church is reported in García de Castro (ibid.) as personal confirmation by two locals of Grameu, Dimas and Julio Corrales Crespo. GdeC (ibid.) relates the shape, style and chronology of this font to those of two other fonts in this region: San Salvador de Priesca and San Bartolomé de Puelles, in the Villaviciosa area [cf. Index entries for Priesca and Puelles]. Described in Alvarez Martínez (1999) as one in a group of barrel-shaped fonts dated to the 9th-11th century of the same design type as the later font originally from the church of San Pedro in Villanueva now kept at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. There is also a crude hemispherical holy-water stoup wall-mounted on the south wall, about half-way down. On the exterior wall, at both sides of the entranceway, have been placed two old plaques with the inscription: "IN NME / DNI FAC/TA ECLA / IN ERA D/CCCL/XXX/IIIIA" [Era 884 = 846 AD]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.41372, -5.379954

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 24′ 49.39″ N, 5° 22′ 47.83″ W

UTM: 30T 307317 4809510

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: vat-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 9.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*

Basin Depth: 40 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 48 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [García de Castro (1995: 245)]

REFERENCES

Alvarez Martínez, María Soledad, El románico en Asturias, Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 1999

García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995