Sopeira No. 2 / Santa Maria de Alaón / Santa Maria d'Alaó

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)
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design element - motifs - ball
design element - motifs - geometric
design element - patterns - ribbed - in round arches
design element - patterns - zigzag - with bead motif in the angles
view of stoup
INFORMATION
FontID: 20067SOP
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Maria de Alaón [formerly Monasterio de Santa María de Alaón / Monestir de Santa Maria d'Alaó]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [and St. Peter]
Church Location: 22583 Sopeira, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located in the Alta Ribagorça, about 30 km north of Puente de Montañana (follow the N-230 north) [NB: located between the village and the reservoir - not to be mistaken with Sapeira, located a few kms SE, in the province of Lerida/Lleida]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro-Monzón [formerly / originally in the diocese of Urgel]
Historical Region: Ribagorza / Ribagorça -- Franja de Ponent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wallmounted on one of the pillars
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this stoup
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Wall-mounted holy-water stoup inside the church; small and roughly hemispherical in shape, has broad upper decorated with doublezig-zag patterns all around, beads in the spandrels; row of ball motif below; underbowl decorated with rib-in-an-arcade pattern all around, the narrow columns incised with tiny star-like motifs; rope moulding at the lower end.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.31815,
0.749722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 19′ 5.34″ N,
0° 44′ 59″ E
UTM: 31T 314564 4687553
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining