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BU01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
INFORMATION
FontID: 05039NAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Vicente
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent
Country Name: Spain
Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Cangas de Narcea
Historical Region: Oviedo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Other such fonts in the area of Cangas de Narcea: Arbás, Besullo, Castañedo, Cibea, Cibuyo and Limés.
Font Notes:
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Listed in García de Castro (1995: 245 fn 375) as one of several baptismal fonts consisting of a hemispherical basin ornamented with a blind arcade, raised on a cylindrical pedestal base, probably the output of a workshop in this area. Described in Alvarez Martínez (1999: 265) as one in a group of pedestal fonts with a square lower base, with either hemispherical or conical shaped basins of the 12th-13th century. The ornamentation consists usually of a blind arcade of Romanesque arches.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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