Fano
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: notice the stubs of the old metal staples in the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - façade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - west portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - nave - northwest corner
Scene Description: the font and cover between the entranceway and the confessional
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken Dec2008/Jan2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13954FAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan Bautista / San Xuan de Fano
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the 634, 12 km SSW of Colunga
Historical Region: Gijón
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of goblet shape, the large basin is tub-shape, round with tapering sides, on a squat splaying base; all plain. Wooden cover of octagonal pyramidal shape, with Latin cross finial. [NB: there is evidence of metal staples in the upper rim; the old staples have either been cut flush with the stone, of they have been extracted and holes plugged]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lined
Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Total Height: 45 cm*
Height of Base: 20 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements by Mikel Unanue]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]