Acin de Garcipollera / Acín de Garcipollera / Azín de Garzipollera
Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
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Scene Description: or is it an 'oil font'?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
view of basin - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
view of church exterior - apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the church in the context of the ruins of the abandoned village
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willtron, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2003 by Willtron [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acín_de_Garcipollera_(Huesca).jpg] [accessed 2 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
information
Scene Description: plaque posted outside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maribel Nogueira Nogues, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2014 by Maribel Nogueira Nogues
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 April 2014)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19260ACI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the one at nearby Larrosa de Garcipollera
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista [abanoned; in ruins]
Font Location in Church: Inside the ruins of the church, by a window
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: church originally 11th-12thC belonging to the Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña -- Antonio García Omedes has article of the abandoned church with photographs [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/45-Acin.htm] [accessed 2 June 2014]
Church Address: Despoblado Acín, Huesca, Spain
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Abandoned village located in the municipality of Jaca, 7 km from Castiello de Jaca and the N-330
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Jaca
Historical Region: Valle de la Garcipollera -- Jacetania
Additional Comments: disused font? / damaged font? (the church was abandoned in the 1960s)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font now serving as planter inside the disused church listed in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/HUESCA_Acin_de_Garcipollera.pdf] [accessed 23 September 2025]: "En el imafronte hallamos lo que parece ser una pila bautismal, de diseño sencillo, rectangular y liso, bajo arcosolio, y que hoy aparece ante nuestros ojos convertida en macetero para una docena de ortigas y una maraña de zarzas. La iglesia de Acín pudo haber sido construida a finales del siglo xii o principios del xiii." Inside the ruined church of the abandoned village is a large rectangular vessel with plain tapering sides; the badly damaged object lies partly embedded in one of the outer walls of the recint. It resembles the 'oil fonts' of the Pyrenees [Jaca is in the Aragonese Pyrenees]. The font and its location in the church are somewhat similar to the one at nearby Larrosa de Garcipollera, also in ruins.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Maribel Nogueira Nogues for her photographs of this church and font. We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 707977 4722602
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.