Santa Eulalia de Morcin No. 1 / Santa Eulalia de Morcín / Santaolaya
Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2017
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 January 2017)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover and the pedestal base are modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 January 2017)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 January 2017)
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 January 2017)
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 January 2017)
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Urbano Suárez, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2005 by Urbano Suárez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Eulalia_de_Morcín.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - plaque - inscription
![on a plaque now located in the chancel: "ACCIPE SANCTE DEVS CVMVLA SANCTA QUAE DONA ASCARIO ARCHIDIACONO DEO VENE SORORISVE EMERITENSIS EVLALIEC DE MIN HONORE FACTAM -GOMELVS- EPISCOPO SUB ERA CENTIES NOBENA -TRIGINTA- ET QVARTAM IN TEMPORE CVRSV SACRATAM" [source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_Santa_Eulalia_(Morcín) [accessed 15 January 2017]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170114005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on a plaque now located in the chancel: "ACCIPE SANCTE DEVS CVMVLA SANCTA QUAE DONA ASCARIO ARCHIDIACONO DEO VENE SORORISVE EMERITENSIS EVLALIEC DE MIN HONORE FACTAM -GOMELVS- EPISCOPO SUB ERA CENTIES NOBENA -TRIGINTA- ET QVARTAM IN TEMPORE CVRSV SACRATAM" [source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_Santa_Eulalia_(Morcín) [accessed 15 January 2017]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Augusto Guedes de Castro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2016 by Augusto Guedes de Castro
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 January 2017)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08442MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th - 10th century [basin only], Early Christian / Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Puelles and Priesca, for instance; also, perhaps, the fragment at Lillo
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Santaolaya in Santa Eulalia de Morcín
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eulalia of Mérida
Church Notes: original 9th-10thC church consecrated 896 AD [foundation inscription gives date "ERA CENTIES NOBENA -TRIGINTA- ET QVARTAM IN TEMPORE CVRSV SACRATAM" [i.e., Era 934]
Church Address: Calle Ctra. a Busloñe, 5, 33162 Santa Eulalia, Asturias, Spain -- Tel.: +34 985 78 34 62
Site Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the MO-1, in the municipality of Morcín, about 10 km S of Oviedo capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Oviedo
Historical Region: Oviedo
Font Notes:
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Described in García de Castro (1995: 242): baptismal font of the pre-Romanesque period, probably the late 9th or early 10th century; it is vat-shaped and similar to, though smaller than, several other such fonts in this area of the Principality of Asturias; the basin is ornamented with a flat moulding all around its middle; raised on a modern polygonal base. The round flat wooden cover is modern. This author relates it, except for size and material, to the fragment now at San Miguel de Lillo.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Augusto Guedes de Castro for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 266308 4796005
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.280602, -5.880164
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 16′ 50.17″ N, 5° 52′ 48.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: vat-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 15.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*
Basin Depth: 42 cm*
Basin Total Height: 60 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * García de Castro (1995: 242)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995, p. 242