Obarra / Santa María de Obarra / Santa Maria d'Obarra / Uvarra
Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
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view of font
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2003 by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2003 by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]
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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Susi4, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2008 by Susi4 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obarra5.JPG] [accessed 10 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Susi4, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2008 by Susi4 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obarra1.JPG] [accessed 10 September 2013]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the spectacular lanscape that surrounds the monastery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2003 by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the spectacular lanscape that surrounds the monastery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2003 by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2003 by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2003 by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18655OBA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 7th - 8th century / 11th century? / 13th century, Visigothic? / Romanesque?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia del Monasterio de Santa María de Obarra / Monestir de Santa Maria d'Obarra
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary [and St. Peter, St. Stephen and the Holy Cross]
Church Notes: present church built in the 11thC; original church may have been pre-711 A.D. -- views of this church in www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm [accessed 10 September 2013]
Church Address: Caretera A-1605, 22485 Calvera, Huesca, Spain -- Tel.: +34 974 31 55 81
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the A-1805, 4-5 km N of Beranuy / Beranui, in the Ribagorza region [N from Gaus, dir. Roda de Isábena]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón [earlier in Roda de Isábena]
Historical Region: Baja Ribagorza / Baixa Ribagorça
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/2-Ribagorza/990360-ObarraSMaria.htm] [accessed 10 September 2013]. There is no mention of the font in the monograph on this site by Galtier Martí and Salas (2013). Baptismal font consisting of a very crude and irregular square basin with a square inner well and thick sides; raised on an equally crude square block as base. No cover present. According to this source, the font is from the Visigothic period of the monastery and still in use: "A los pies de la nave norte, se halla la pila bautismal. Es cuadrada, realizada por un simple vaciado de un bloque pétreo, sin decoración alguna y con un orificio de drenaje en el centro de su base. Se estima de la misma procedencia y antigüedad que los capiteles y ménsulas; probablemente de origen visigótico [...] El día que tomé las imágenes del interior del templo (11 de Octubre de 2003), lo hice tras asistir a la ceremonia del bautismo de un niño al que se le impuso el nombre de Álvaro. Sus padres se habían casado allí mismo un año antes. A pesar de sus vicisitudes históricas, el templo sigue cumpliendo con las funciones para las que fue concebido."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes, [www.romanicoaragones.com], for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 302348 4696938
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.398333, 0.596111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 23′ 54″ N, 0° 35′ 46″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
- Galtier Martí, Fernando, Santa María de Obarra, entre la historia y la leyenda, Zaragoza: Mira Editores, 2012