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
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
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