Puelles / Pueyes / Valeri

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

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view of basin - interior - drain

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the right-hand corner of the chancel arch (not its original liocation) -- notice the small window above the chancel arch, probably a survival of the Mozarabic church here

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view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: how does one access it?

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view of church interior - pulpit - detail

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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Image Source: García de Castro Valdés, 1995 (pl. 162)

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05034PUE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: Spain
Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A64, in the hamlet of Valeri, parish of Puelles, NNW of Valdedios, SW of Villaviciosa
Historical Region: Oviedo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just W of the chancel arch, S side of the nave [originally in the NW corner]
Date: ca. 1018 (?)
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: Somewhat related to the fonts at Lillo and Priesca.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: The present church is late Romanesque (13th-14th century?), but the font may have been originally from a nearby church -San Zadornin/Zaornin- that disappeared in the 19th century.
Miguel Vigil (1987 c1887: 599) mentions the parish in his listing of those in the Concejo de Villaviciosa but not the church or the font. Described and illustrated in García de Castro (1995: 244 and pl. 162): tub-shaped sandstone basin ornamented with a double-rope motif; this font may have been originally from the disappeared church of San Zaornín [Zadornin in Miguel Vigil (op. cit.)] in the 19th century; this last church was consecrated in 1018 AD. The font is now raised on a modern quadrangular base. Described in Alvarez Martínez (1999: 265) 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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.44455, -5.51262

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped (round)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining -- described in GdeC as central with side exit ["en el centro, desagüe con salida lateral"]
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [approx.]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm [estimated]
Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm*
Basin Depth: 35 cm*
Basin Total Height: 53 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [García de Castro (1995: 244 ) *[GdeC gives de inside diameter as "17 cm", obviously an error; since he also gives the Gramedo font as having similar measurements, we have used the inner diameter from the latter font as an estimate]]

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
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"]