Lecina
Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2004
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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-Lecina.htm] [accessed 21 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "La Iglesia de Lecina, consagrada a San Juan Bautista, se levanta en el lugar exacto donde existió un monasterio de origen visigótico."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan R. Lascorz, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 7 January 2004 by Juan R. Lascorz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:273.Lecina_-_ilesia_de_Sant_Chuan_Baptista.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - plaque
Scene Description: Source caption: "Placa conmemorativa de la iglesia de San Juan Bautista, en Lecina."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan R. Lascorz, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph 7 January 2004 by Juan R. Lascorz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:279.Lezina_-_Placa_dera_ilesia.JPg] [accessed 21 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in a lttle chapel beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-Lecina.htm] [accessed 21 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marta Puyol Ibort / SIPCA, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Marta Puyol Ibort, in SIPCA [http://www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-003-051-007/Iglesia/de/San/Juan/Bautista.html] [accessed 21 June 2021]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 08763HUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Calle Baja, 14, 22148 Lecina, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off local road HU-V-3421, W of the A2205, in the municipality and 3 km SW of Bárcabo, 7-8 km N of Alquézar, about 65-70 km ENE of Huesca capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Huesca
Historical Region: Comarca de Sobrarbe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S side, W end, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com] for his notes on and image of this object
Church Notes: present church chiefly 18thC, with remains of the Romanesque original building, itself said to have been built on the site of a Visigothic monastery
Font Notes:
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Described in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/HUESCA_Lecina.pdf] [accessed 21 June 2021]: "Cabe señalar también la existencia de una pila bautismal de piedra, monolítica, ubicada en un pequeño baptisterio bajo el coro. Se trata de un gran contenedor circular encastrado en el muro, con tapa de madera y decorado en su frente con un relieve en forma de cruz patada inscrita en un círculo." Noted in Múñiz López & García Alvarez-Busto (2007). Described and illustrated in Antonio García Omedes [www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Sobrarbe/99040-Lecina.htm] [accessed 21 June 2021]: cauldron-shaped baptismal font mounted on a step in the SW corner of the nave; the only ornamentation is a large Malta cross inscribed in a circle on the front side. Plain flat wooden cover, modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.229633, 0.036627
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 13′ 46.68″ N, 0° 2′ 11.86″ E
UTM: 31T 255454 4679525
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
Múñiz López, Iván, "La pila bautismal de tradición prerrománica de Castrillón (Asturias): el control señorial del bautismo", 2 (2007), Territorio, sociedad y poder, 2007, pp. 265-274; p. 272