Puylampa / Puilampa

Image copyright © Nuniloo, 2012
image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (email of 14 November 2011)
Results: 11 records
view of basin - upper view - detail
Scene Description: the photographer noted that the mark on the rim here matched stonemasons' marks inside the church [NB: it is very unusal for a stonemason's mark to appear on a baptismal font, if that is what this object is]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nuniloo, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2011 by Nuniloo [http://elpasiego.foroactivo.com/t49p255-pilas-romanicas#7814] [accessed 18 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (email of 14 November 2011)
view of church exterior - east end - apse
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church exterior - west portal
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nuniloo, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2011 by Nuniloo [http://elpasiego.foroactivo.com/t49p255-pilas-romanicas#7814] [accessed 18 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (email of 14 November 2011)
view of object
view of object in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 17926PUY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Iglesia del Monasterio de Puylampa [now privated property]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Zaragoza, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located just SW of Sádaba, about 100 km from Zaragoza capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Zaragoza
Font Location in Church: outside, near the monastery
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for reporting this finding, and for the photographs of object and church. We are also grateful to Nuniloo for her additional photographs
Church Notes: The consecration of the monastery is dated by an inscription in the interior to Era MCCXXVIIII, i.e., 1191 AD
Font Notes:
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Semi-buried in the ground outside the church of the Monasterio de Puylampa is a round stone object resembling the upper end of a baptismal font basin; it is difficult to be certain of its identity as only the upper rim protrudes from the ground, and its surface is much eroded and covered in lichens. In general old disused fonts are disposed by burying them within the church or breaking them up and using the fragments as rubble in the restoration of the religious building. Many, however, are used in churchyards and rector's gardens as garden planters, when not put to other more sacrilegious uses. The remains consist of round basin with a broken through bottom; the well inside appears rather shallow for an old font; there is a notch and a hole in one part of the rim; the object could be the remains of a trough or tank used for agricultural purposes, and we have no means of dating it. The object and the church itself are now private property. The church of the monastery is dated to the late 12th century [cf. ChurchNotes].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 640746 4679465
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round