Erdao / Torroella de Aragón?
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: the ruins of the abandoned church
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Image Source: digital photograph in Despoblados de Graus [http://losolvidadosdegraus.blogspot.ca/2010/03/erdao.html] [accessed 7 October 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the ruins of the abandoned church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Despoblados de Graus, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Despoblados de Graus [http://losolvidadosdegraus.blogspot.ca/2010/03/erdao.html] [accessed 7 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08222ERD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Martín / Església de Sant Martí, Capella [orig. from the church of San Cristobal / Sant Cristòfol, Erdao]
Font Location in Church: Located now in the interior of the church of San Martín at Capella [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Christopher
Church Notes: original church 11th-12thC
Church Address: C. Num 129, 5, 08250 Sant Martí de Torroella, Barcelona, Spain
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Erdao is an uninhabited (since the 1960s) hamlet in the municipality of Graus, 90 km from Huesca capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón
Historical Region: Ribagorza / Ribagorça
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / moved font? (the one from the original 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Celina Llarás Usón, in her introductory essay on "L'escultura monumental" of the Ribagorça / Ribagorza region, in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XVI: 115) refers to a baptismal font originally from the Iglesia de San Cristóbal / Sant Cristòfol, in Erdao, later moved to the Iglesia de San Martín / Església de Sant Martí, in Capella, as difficult to assign a date to but perhaps of the Gothic period [cf. Index entries for Capella (Huesca) for a possible identification of this font -- a local source informed that "one of the fonts stored here had been sent to Graus"]. The entry for this abandoned church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/HUESCA_Erdao.pdf] [accessed 1 June 2025] suggests a date for the ruinous church in the late-11th or early-12th century, and mentions no font in it. The SIPCA entry for this church [https://www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-004-117-018/Iglesia/de/San/Crist%F3bal.html] [accessed 1 June 2025] mentions no font either.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his information on the Capella fonts (e-mail of 5 October 2015)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 280218 4674364
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XVI: 115