Sopeira No. 3 / 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 - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)

view of stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)

view of stoup in context

Scene Description: partly attached to the westmost pillar of the south arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 20068SOP
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, by a column of the S arcade of the nave, W end
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this stoup
Holy-water stoup by the westmost pillar of the south arcade of the nave; it consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with fluted sides, raised on a round pedestal base and a round to square lower base. It appears disused, the basin full of debris at the time.

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: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining