Troncedo No. 2

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design element - architectural - arch - round arch

Scene Description: a row

Image Source: digital photograph May 2003 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph May 2003 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - patterns - ribbed - round arch-head

Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl sides

Image Source: digital photograph May 2003 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2011 by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021] [accessed 18 August 2021]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2011 by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021] [accessed 18 August 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: located in the bario of Troncedo known as "Casas de San Angel", aka "Santangel"

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2011 by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021] [accessed 18 August 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2011 by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021] [accessed 18 August 2021]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the baptismal font partially visible at the far [west] end, ledt [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2011 by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021] [accessed 18 August 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph May 2003 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail 2/5/2003)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the baptismal font partially visible at the far [west] end, ledt [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph 4 February 2011 by Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021] [accessed 18 August 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08234TRO

Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Victorián

Church Patron Saints: St. Victorianus [formerly St. Michael?]

Church Location: Casas de San Angel / Santangel, 22438 Troncedo, Huesca, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: Located off the HU-V-6441 [aka Calle Unica], S of the N-260, in the municipality of La Fueva, 17 km N of Graus, 35-40 km NNE of Barbastro

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón

Historical Region: Comarca del Sobrarbe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner of the nave, beneath the W gallery

Century and Period: 12th - 15th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: similar font in Troncedo's parish church

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, and to Antonio García Omedes of www.romanicoaragones.com, for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font probably of the 12th or 13th century; it consists of two elements: a hemispherical basin with extended vertical sides and a quadrangular pedestal base; the basin has a moulding at the upper rim; below it is a row of round arches without supports serving as the upper end of the thick ribs that cover the rest of the basin and underbowl sides; at one end of the upper basin side, just below the rim is a square indentation which may have served to install the iron lock of the cover [NB: this type of lock and its location are common in early fonts on both side of the eastern Pyrenees]. The pedestal base appears plain except for a bulge or protrusion near the top end, which may have been an ornamental motif but is now too eroded to identify as any particular shape. The font and the ermita are described and illustrated in Antonio García Omedes [http://www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-TroncedoSV.htm] [accessed 18 August 2021]. The font is mentioned in the Enciclopedia del romanico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/HUESCA_Troncedo.pdf] [accessed 18 August 2021]: "A los pies del templo se levanta un coro alto de madera al que se accede por escalera intramural. A esta altura de la nave se haya una pila bautismal gallonada con elegante decoración a modo de arquería ciega superior." [cf. BSI entry for Toncedo No. 1 for a very similar font there]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 277155 4687163

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes re: the square space near the upper rim]