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BBU01: design element - motifs - rectangle

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: with the modern sacristy addition

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

view of font

Scene Description: notice the damage and the cover staple hole

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font

Image Source: García de Castro (1995: 244)

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view of font in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 3, 2005

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2010 by Mikel Unanue

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05033PRI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador

Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour

Country Name: Spain

Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias

Directions to Site: Located 9 kms east of Villaviciosa, south of the Alto de B. Aires, at the end of a local road about 2 kms from the Alto

Historical Region: Oviedo

Font Location in Church: In the N porch, W side

Date: ca. 921?

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

Cognate Fonts: Same type as the font from the church of San Pedro de Villanueva; another of the same type nearby: Gramedo/Grameu en Cabranes (somewhat related to those at Lillo and Puelles).

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Miguel Vigil (1987 c1887) mentions the baptistery as part of the church but not the font itself. It is described and illustrated in García de Castro (1995): vat/barrel-shaped sandstone baptismal font dated to the year of the consecration of the church, 921 AD [NB: the author argues that the 'opus signinum' on wich the base of the font is located has not been altered since the original date of the church]; the basin is ornamented with a large roll moulding at the upper rim; there are three wide (8-10 cm) cuts or notches in this surface and the south side has a quadrangular protrusion or 'mensula' just below the moulding; it is mounted on a short (20 cm) circular base slightly wider than the bottom of the basin. 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 [Mazariegos?] now kept at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. [NB: besides the obvious cognates from nearby churchs, those from San Pedro de Villanueva and Gramedo, this type of vat- or barrel-shaped object appears also in some of the French baptisteries of the southeast, usually in addition to the main sunken font; other vat- or barrel-shaped baptismal font, especially those with carved staves and rings simulating the actual morphology of the barrel are not uncommon in the Romanesque period; of special note is the magnificent vat-shaped marble font at Perpignan [cf. Index entry]]. On-site notes: the vat-shaped font is still in the same location; the notches at opposite ends are actually the damage resulting from the forceful removal of the old cover staples; the protrusion at the front -upper basin side- appears to be simply decorative, perhaps painted with a particular colour or motif in the past.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: barrel-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: diamter of the drain hole: 6 cm

Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm

Basin Depth: 48 cm

Basin Total Height: 67 cm

Height of Base: 20 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm

Notes on Measurements: García de Castro (1995: 244)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes regarding notches on the uper rim]

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

Miguel Vigil, Ciriaco, Asturias monumental, epigráfica y diiplomática: datos para la historia de la provincia, Oviedo: Principado de Asturias, Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1987

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; r["References"]