Sopeira No. 1 / Santa Maria de Alaón / Santa Maria d'Alaó
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
Results: 16 records
view of font - upper view
Scene Description: notice the metal staple on the right side of the upper rim, anchoring point for an old cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of font in context - east side
Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the centre drain hole appears to have been blocked
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of church exterior - cloister
Scene Description: the ruins of the monastery clister
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of church exterior - southeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior in context - southeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sopeira_Santa_María_de_Alaón_831.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sopeira_Santa_María_de_Alaón_840.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sopeira_Santa_María_de_Alaón_839.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sopeira_Santa_María_de_Alaón_833.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
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view of church interior - mosaic
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of church interior - chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of church interior - crypt
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/Alaon G12b.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/Alaon G17.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with one of the holy-water stoups in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/Alaon G09.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05235SOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Maria de Alaón [formerly Monasterio de Santa María de Alaón / Monestir de Santa Maria d'Alaó]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [and St. Peter]
Church Notes: original Visigothic (?) church 6th-7thC; originally a Cluniac priory; later Benedictine abbey; monastery abandoned in 1836 but continued as parish church; damaged by fire in the Spanish Civil War; restored in the later 20thC; Sopeira's parish church today
Church Address: 22583 Sopeira, Huesca, Spain
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Alta Ribagorça, about 30 km north of Puente de Montañana (follow the N-230 north) [NB: located between the village and the reservoir - not to be mistaken with Sapeira, located a few kms SE, in the province of Lerida/Lleida]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón [formerly / originally in the diocese of Urgel]
Historical Region: Ribagorza / Ribagorça -- Franja de Ponent
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Visigothic 6th-7thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The font here is a totally plain tub-shaped basin that stands directly on the ground of the church, at the west end of the south aisle. One metal staple remains at the upper rim of the basin. [NB: three other items listed for Sopeira, Nos. 2-4]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com], and to Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and objects therein
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 314564 4687553
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.31815, 0.749722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 19′ 5.34″ N, 0° 44′ 59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: drain now blocked -- no lining
REFERENCES
- Cobreros, Jaime, Románico en España (Guías Periplo), Madrid: Incafo, 1993, p. 273-274 [no mention of the font]
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. 16: 464-480 [no menion of the font]
- Iglesias Costa, Manuel, Arquitectura románica, siglos X-XI, XII, XIII, Barcelona: Akribos, 1985, p. 90-101 [no mention of the font]