Buil No. 1 / Boil / Santa Maria de Buil / Santa María de Buil
Image copyright © Merce Rota Serra, 2019
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)
Results: 8 records
design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: or blind arcade of narrow arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Merce Rota Serra, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Merce Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)
view of church exterior - apse
Scene Description: Source caption: "El carácterístico triple ábside de la iglesia románica de San Martín en Buil."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan R. Lascorz, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 January 2004 by Juan R. Lascorz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:222.Buil_-_Abside_triple_de_San_Martín_de_Buil.JPG] [accessed 29 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - apse - northeast side
Scene Description: late-11thC(?)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ainhoa, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2007 by Ainhoa [www.flickr.com/photos/25029396@N00/772150054] [accessed 29 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: showing the late-11thC(?) apse semi-buried in later construction
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sobrarbe2, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 10 May 2011 by Sobrarbe2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanmartinbuil.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church interior - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan R. Lascorz, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 January 2004 by Juan R. Lascorz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:228.Buil_-_Altar_de_San_Martín.JPG] [accessed 29 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - ceiling - painting
Scene Description: the 18thC(?) paintings in the interior of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan R. Lascorz, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 January 2004 by Juan R. Lascorz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:226.Buil_-_Pinturas_dera_ilesia.JPG] [accessed 29 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Merce Rota Serra, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Merce Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2004
Image Source: Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
INFORMATION
FontID: 08767BUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Martín
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 22330 Santa María de Buil, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off (about 1 km E) the A2205, 17 km S of Ainsa, on a little road that leads E towards Coscojuela de Sobrarbe and the Embalse Mediano, in the municpality of Aínsa-Sobrarbe
Historical Region: Alto Sobrarbe
Font Location in Church: In the area of the church where the tithes were kept
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes of www.romanicoaragones.com for his notes on and image of this font, and to Merce Rota Serra for her photograph of the font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com]: the cylindrical basin has a hemispherical underbowl and it is decorated with an incised line running around the upper basin side; below this line, a pattern of ribs that could also be read as a blind arcade of narrow arches; it is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal. The font is not from the earlier period of the church (11thC) and looks like it could belong to a later medieval time, perhaps as late as the 16thC. [NB: A photograph taken in June by José Antonio Cuenca [http://estatierraesmiaragon.blogspot.com/2015/06/de-san-martin-de-tours-santa-maria-de.html] [accessed 29 June 2019] shows a large plain hemispherical basin resting on the ground by the portal of the parish church of Santa Maria de Buil; the church is described as 16th-centuy, with 17th-century modifications, which would make a font like this anachronistic in such a late church; could the large hemispherical vessel now [2015] standing by the portal of this church have belonged to nearby San Martin's, instead? And, continuing with the speculation, could the font now [2019] in San Martin have belonged to Santa Maria's?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.366438, 0.087579
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 21′ 59.18″ N, 0° 5′ 15.28″ E
UTM: 31T 260179 4694572
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining