Camoca No. 1 / Camoca de Arriba / Camoca Riba

INFORMATION

FontID: 10882CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: Spain
Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km from Villaviciosa
Historical Region: Oviedo
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at Gúa (?), also in Oviedo
Font Notes:
Fuenteseca Alvarez and González Gutiérrez (1998) mention the font at Camoca as possibly related to the font at Gúa [cf. Index entry], also in the province of Oviedo. According to this source, "D. Joaquín Manzanares, cronista de Asturias" saw the Camoca font in the property of a certain Oviedo antique dealer twenty-five to thirty years earlier [i.e., 1968-1973] [="que acertó a ver la pila de Camoca en poder de cierta anticuaria de Oviedo hace unos 25 ó 30 años"]. [cf. Index entry for Camoca No. 2 for a holy-water stoup still in the church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Fuenteseca Alvarez, Alicia, "Presencia de pilas bautismales en iglesias cistercienses asturianas", Actas : II Congreso Internacional sobre el Císter en Galicia y Portugal, Ourense: [The Congress], 1998