San Roman de Amieva nr. Sames No. 1 / San Román de Amieva

Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 January 2014)

Results: 6 records

design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: two narrow parallel bands

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2008 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 January 2014)

design element - motifs - sawtooth

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2008 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 January 2014)

design element - motifs - square

Scene Description: two bands, below the saw-tooth motif

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2008 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 January 2014)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the blocked central drain hole

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2008 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 January 2014)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2008 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

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view of font and stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2008 by Augusto Guedes de Castro

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 January 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07269AMI
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Román
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus
Church Location: 33558 San Román de Amieva, Asturias
Country Name: Spain
Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias
Directions to Site: Located off the N625, 5 km from Sames, 10 km from Carbes, 90 km from Oviedo capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Oviedo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Con, Grazanes, in the same area [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes de Castro for his photographs of the font and stoup here
Church Notes: present 16thC church probably built on the site of an earlier church here
Described and illustrated in Ruiz de la Peña (2000) as a monolithic baptismal font of the Romanesque period wall-mounted in a corner of the nave; the font is hemispherical, without a base [NB: the old basin is not exactly 'wall-mounted'; it is mounted in a bed of cement against the wall]; the upper band of the basin sides is ornamented with two bands of incised saw-tooth, with two bands of square motifs below. This author (ibid., 131 fn 292) informs that the local sources in San Román beleive the font was recovered from a nearby well; it is probably the original font of the church here that was removed at some point in the past; this author also points out (ibid.) that it is one of the few Romanesque fonts of this region. Described and illustrated by ACG in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Asturias (2006) [www.romanicodigital.com/detalle-Pdf.aspx?archivo=SAN ROMÁN (Amieva)&localidad=ASTURIAS] [accessed 3 February 2014] as Romanesque, and similar to the ones at Con and Grazanes in the same region.

COORDINATES

UTM: 29T 737345 4814969

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 83 cm*
Basin Total Height: 96 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * ACG in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Asturias (2006) [www.romanicodigital.com/detalle-Pdf.aspx?archivo=SAN%20ROM%C3%81N%20%28Amieva%29&localidad=ASTURIAS] [accessed 3 February 2014]

REFERENCES

Ruiz de la Peña González, Isabel, Arquitectura religiosa medieval en el espacio oriental de Asturias (siglos XII-XVI), Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 2000