Zaragoza No. 1 / Caesaraugusta / Çaragoça / سرقسطة / Saraqusṭa

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Image Source: digital photograph in Turismo, Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza [www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/turismo/es/que-visitar/detalle_Monumento?id=11] [accessed 28 September 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced in compliance with the source's copyright statement [www.zaragoza.es/sede/portal/aviso-legal] [accessed 28 September 2018]

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph in Turismo, Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza [www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/turismo/es/que-visitar/detalle_Monumento?id=11] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital photograph in Turismo, Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza [www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/turismo/es/que-visitar/detalle_Monumento?id=11] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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design element - patterns - torsade

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 [26?] December 2011 by Ecelan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zaragoza_-_Convento_del_Santo_Sepulcro_-_Claustro_-_Pila_bautismal.JPG] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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information

Scene Description: letter authorising the transfer of the font to Zaragoza [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image taken 3 October 2018 by Informacion Canonesas [infocanonesas@gmail.com]

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - upper view

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view of basin in context - detail

Scene Description: the row of ball [?] motif is visible here, right below the rim moulding

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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

Scene Description: [NB: the name of the monastic order and of the monastery itself is 'Santo Sepulcro' [Holy Sepulchre]]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Escarlati [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relieve_convento_del_Santo_Sepulcro.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the outer walls of the monastery incorporates part of the original Roman wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2007 by Ecelan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zaragoza_-_Convento_del_Santo_Sepulcro.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font located now [2018] in the Mudéjar cloister of the active monastery

Image Source: digital photograph in Turismo, Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza [www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/turismo/es/que-visitar/detalle_Monumento?id=11] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 [26?] December 2011 by Ecelan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zaragoza_-_Convento_del_Santo_Sepulcro_-_Claustro_-_Pila_bautismal.JPG] [accessed 28 September 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16497ZAR

Church/Chapel: Real Monasterio de Comendadoras Canonesas de la Orden Militar y Pontificia del Santo Sepulcro / Monasterio de la Resurrección del Santo Sepulcro / Monasterio de las Abadesas del Santo Sepulcro [orig. from the Iglesia Parroquial de San Saturnino, Terrazas)

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Sepulchre / Resurrection

Church Location: Calle de Don Teobaldo, 3, 50001 Zaragoza, Spain -- Tel.: +34 976 29 30 47 [accessible on Mondays -except Easter Monday- w/o previous reservation]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Zaragoza, Aragón

Directions to Site: Located just NE of the Casco Antiguo, the old town centre, in the NE corner of the Roman wall, on the S bank of the Ebro, S of the Puente del Pilar -- Terraza is located in the Ribagorza region, not very far from Campos, about 5 km from Murillo de Liena, but accessible only on foot or 4x4 vehicles

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Zaragoza

Font Location in Church: In the monastery cloister

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Marian Torrens for bringing this font to our attention, and to Informacion Canonesas [infocanonesas@gmail.com] for thei photographs of and information on the font

Church Notes: female monastery founded 1276; built 13th-14thC; site of the Comunidad de Canonesas Regulares del Santo Sepulcro [= Order of Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem] [NB: the monastery has its own church but we have no information on the font in it] -- for the origonal church at Terraza see http://www.arquivoltas.com/3-HU-Ribagorza/990373-Terraza.htm [accessed 7 October 2018]

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There is a very irregular and crudely executed but possibly late-medieval stone baptismal font now in this convent; the font is believed to have originated, not in the original 13th-century church of the convent, but in some nearby village or hamlet. The font consists of a round tapering basin of very irregular proportions; there is a broad flat moulding at the upper rim, a row of ball-motif (?) below it, and a pattern of poorly executed ribs on the sides and underbowl; the pedestal base is slender, with a roll moulding at the top and torsade pattern on the stem. The inner basin has a drilled hole below the rim, likely and anchoring spot for a now lost cover. The font is now located in the Mudéjar cloister of the active monastery. Upon a request for information from BSI the monastery informed [e-mail of 4 October 2018]: "La pila no, no es originaria del monasterio. Viene de una ermita en el Pre-Pirineo (obispado de Barbastro). Le adjunto fotografía del único documento que tenemos con algunos datos. Una hermana recuerda que fueron a la ermita que se encontraba totalmente saqueada y que habían intentado también expoliar la pila, pero que tenía un eje metálico que impidió el robo. La ermita estaba en un lugar despoblado y de difícil acceso. Cree recordar el lugar podría llamarse Vacamorta. A la pila ahora no se le aprecia desagüe, aunque hay algo de cemento en el fondo.[...] La pila desde la fecha de su llegada, está situada en la llamada capilla de san José en el claustro mudéjar (S. XIV). junto a ella se sitúa parte del cementerio de la comunidad, por lo que adquiere una simbología muy especial. No se emplea para realizar bautizos, pero si es frecuente su uso en celebraciones litúrgicas de carácter simbólico, renovación del bautismo, y otras." To this information was attached the photograph of a document with the heading and stamp of the Iglesia Parroquial de Campo, signed by the parish priest Angel Castillo Murillo; the letter certiifies that, with the agreement of the Bishop of Barbastro, Ambrosio Echebarria Arroita and of the Prioress of the Monasterio de la Resurreccion -Orden del Santo Sepulcro- Zaragoza, the baptismal font of Terraza is moved to the said monastery. The letter is dated 5 October 1976 and bears the additional signature of the Prioress. With the help of the blog Despoblados en Huesca [www.despobladosenhuesca.com/search/label/TERRAZA], we have been able to locate 'Terraza' as an abandoned hamlet in El Solano de Bacamorta, in the Ribagorza, and its abandoned church, formerly the Iglesia Parroquial de San Saturnino, a building dated in this source as mid-12th century in the Lombardic style; the church was modified in the 16th century 'Morillo de Liena' and a 'Bacamorta' in a valley knows as 'Valle de Terraza'. The letter quoted above states that the priest authorising the donation of the font is the priest in charge ["encargado"]of Morillo de Liena and its region ["comarca"]. Morillo de Liena and Campo are both located off the A139, NNE of Barbastro, in the province of Huesca, region known as La Ribagorza.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.653745, -0.872477

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 39′ 13.48″ N, 0° 52′ 20.92″ W

UTM: 30T 677153 4613520

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: drain now blocked -- no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]