Lacasta / A Casta

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

design element - patterns - concave

Scene Description: on the inside of the well; upper rim

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2003 by Antonio García-Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/zaragoza/990512-Lacasta02.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail 18/4/2003)

view of basin's top - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2003 by Antonio García-Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/zaragoza/990512-Lacasta02.htm]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail 18/4/2003)

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: part of the church is in ruins

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 January 2016]

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 January 2016]

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 January 2016]

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 January 2016]

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the old font at the far [west] end, right [north] corner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 January 2016]

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

view of font base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

view of font in context

Scene Description: west end, north side, beneath the gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 November 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 08148LAC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari [abandoned church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Bari

Church Location: Lacasta [abandoned hamlet]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Zaragoza, Aragón

Directions to Site: abandoned hamlet located about 4 km N of Júnez (follow the A-127 for 16 km from Egea de los Caballeros to Erla; just past Erla make a left towards Luna (A-1103); continue on past Luna for about 8-10 km; Lacasta is at the end of the road)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Jaca

Historical Region: Comarca de Cinco Villas

Font Location in Church: Inside the abandoned church, at the W end of the nave, N side, beneath the gallery (18 April 2003 & 26 October 2013)

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García-Omedes, of www.romanicoaragones.com, for the information on, and the photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Antonio Daban Royo, of Amigos del Romanico, for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: original church here, now abandoned and in ruins, is 12thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Aragón (Zaragoza, vol. 1, 2010). Described and illustrated in Antonio García-Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/zaragoza/990512-Lacasta02.htm]: cauldron-shaped basin mounted on a short base and a a circular plinth; although the outer shape of the basin is a rather crude work, the inside of the upper rim has a most beautiful festooned edge with lovely round arches as the initiation of a concave ribbed pattern; the ornamentation however ends there and the rest of the basin well is plain. Noted and illustrated in Acín Fanlo (2010). The basin appears to be granite, but the rest of it looks like limestone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.256984, -0.867920

UTM: 30T 4678021 673606

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Acín Fanlo, José Luis, Arquitectura románica, siglos X-XI, XII y XIII, Zaragoza: Mirador, 2010

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Aragón, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2010