Gua / Gúa

Noted in Fuenteseca Alvarez and González Gutiérrez (1998) as a baptismal font from the church of a mid-12th century Benedictine convent. According to this source, the part of the nave where the font had originally been collapsed after an attempt at blowing up the church ca. 1936 [Spanish Civil War]; the font was removed from the wreckage to the place where it stands today [i..e., 1998], behind the new façade. This same source indicates that the font, a plain and large cauldron-like tub, is a rarity not only in the Concejo de Somiedo, but in the wider context of the whole Principado [i.e., Asturias], and gives the disappeared font from Comoca as a posible cognate. This source dates the font between the 11th and 12th centuries. [We are grateful to Alicia Fuenteseca Alvarez and Leopoldo González Gutiérrez for bringing this font to our attention, and for the information provided]