Aguascaldas

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design element - motifs - ball

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design element - motifs - ball

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design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal

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design element - patterns - ribbed?

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08221AGU
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores / Església de Santa Maria
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 22451 Aguascaldas, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off the HU-V-9601, in the of Valle de Bardagi / Vall de Bardaixí, in the Ribagorza, 106 km from Huesca capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end, in a S alcove or chapel [earlier in the N side]
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Perhaps de font at Espluga de Merli, in the same region. The basin is very similar to the font at nearby Biescas de Bardaji
Church Notes: Romanesque church; modified 16thC
Illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ). The SIPCA [Sistema de Información de Patrimonio Cultural Aragonés] entry for this church [www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-004-243-074/Iglesia/de/Nuestra/Se%F1ora/de/los/Dolores.html#.V2hqSeRwQ-g] [accessed 20 June 2016] reports a baptismal font and a wall-mounted holy-water stoup; no dates given, but presumably medieval: "Hay pila bautismal, decorada con gallones, en la capilla S[ur]. Pie cilíndrico con acanaladuras helicoidales. Copa y pie están decorados con pintura. Hay pila de agua bendita, encajada en el muro, decorada con gallones que terminan en arcos y bolas en el borde." The font consists of a roughly bucket-shaped basin decorated with a row of ball motif around the upper basin sides, a ribbed or arched pattern all around the sides below; raised on a round pedestal base decorated with diagonal fluting with ball motifs atop. The whole font is brightly painted. Not known a)whether the font is a composite object, b)whether the paint is modern or jus a re-painting, ...

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 289730 4698853

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: a hole in the upper side of the basin appears to indicate that it would have had a cover at some point

REFERENCES

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-