Nembro

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

information

view of basin - interior - drain

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: from the original Romanesque church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2010 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

INFORMATION

FontID: 16336NEM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia
Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida
Country Name: Spain
Location: Asturias, Principado de Asturias
Directions to Site: Located on the AS-236, 2 km from Luanco, in the municipality of Gozón, near Luanco/Lluanco, 12 km E of Avilés
Font Location in Church: In an annex to the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for the photographs of, and information on this font
Cylindrical baptismal font made of limestone; the only decoration is a broad upper rim, which has an incised groove on the side and another on the top, and another moulding at the very bottom of the basion; central drain hole; rests directly on the ground. Local sources [cf.Credit area below] claim different origins of the font: some claim it was the original font of the nearby Iglesia de San Jorge, destroyed in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); others that it may have been the font of the Iglesia de San Miguel, also nearby; finally some reckon it belonged to the former building that was replaced by the present church, Santa Eulalia; the latter has a 12th-century Romanesque portal, which date probably suits the font]. The font is located in an annex to the church; the font is disused and kept in poor conditions, covered in old sacks, etc.]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: unlined
Rim Thickness: 12 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 96 cm*
Basin Depth: 49 cm*
Basin Total Height: 68 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Mikel Unanue]