Calvera No. 2 / Calbera
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Image and permission received 9e-mail of 10 October 2015)
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view of font - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received 9e-mail of 10 October 2015)
view of font in context
Scene Description: the two obects in the context of the west end of the nave
view of font in context
Scene Description: wirth the claimed font at the far back; not known what the metal and stone objects is; perhaps a stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received 9e-mail of 10 October 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20064CAL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Andrés
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 22485 Calvera, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Beranuy, between the Isábena and Noguera Ribagorzana rivers, 92 km from Huesca capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón
Historical Region: Prepirineo / Ribagorza / Ribagorça
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: , Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font? / pica d'oli?
Cognate Fonts: a somewhat similar one in Calvera, Huesca
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church, fonts and objects
Church Notes: original 11thC church, much altered in the 13th, 16th and 20th centuries
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Two objects of interest in this church are noted and illustrated in García Omedes' GUÍA DIGITAL DEL ARTE ROMÁNICO [www.castillodeloarre.org/HU-Ribagorza/990373-CalveraSA.htm] [accessed 10 October 2015]; one is rectangular, the other tub-like, with the bottom wider than the top; both disused. The tub-like vessel is round, with a 'belly' larger than the top opening, an uncharacteristic shape for a font; it is locally described as a "pica d'oli" [=oil font], said to have been used in the Middle Ages to collect tithe oil for lighting and heating in these Pyrenean villages, though usually such vessels are roughly rectangular in shape. The round basin is totally plain, and raised on a flat round stone and a quadrangular base; all three volumes are plain. There is no cover present, nor is there any evidence of there having been any anchoring points for a cover in the past. [cf. Index entries for Calvera Nos. 1 and 3 for two other vessels listed for this church]. [NB: there are two medieval chapels-of-ease to this church: Ermita de San Valero (11thC; now in ruins), and Ermita de Santa María (12thC); we have no information on the baptismal fonts of those rural chapels].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.388312,
0.613645
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 23′ 17.92″ N,
0° 36′ 49.12″ E
UTM: 31T 303569 4695650
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining