Huesca No. 3

Image copyright © Belen Gerrikabeitia, 2014
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 September 2012)
Results: 6 records
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - baptistery - retable
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
view of font in context
Scene Description: the 'old' font inside the baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Belen Gerrikabeitia, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2012 by Belen Gerrikabeitia
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 September 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 19169HUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santo Domingo y San Martín
Church Patron Saints: St. Dominic of Silos & St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Plaza de Santo Domingo s/n, 22001 Huesca, Spain -- Tel.: +34 974 22 22 10
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Huesca
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Belen Gerrikabeitia for her photographs of these fonts
Church Notes: originally the church of the Dominican monastery founded in 1254; destroyed in mid-14thC; re-built late-14thC; demolished in late-17th and re-built in the Jesuitic Baroque style
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of marble, a round tapering basin with a broad flat moulding at the upper end, a saw-tooth pattern below; raised on a squat round-to-square base. No cover present. This font is locked inside the baptistery and appears to be not in use. The modern font in use consists of a hemispherical gadrooned basin raised on a fluted column and a round-to-square lower base standing on four brass feet. Low-dome brass cover with Greek cross finial.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining