Ceresola / Cerésola / Zresola

Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 September 2019)

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: the pattern is a little more regular on this side -- notice the big cut made into the upper rim to fit a cover lock

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2019 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 September 2019)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the basin of a crude and probably early font was built into the north wall at some point its past

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2019 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 September 2019)

view of basin - southeast side

Scene Description: orientation is approximate -- notice the very irregular zig-zag pattern

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2019 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 September 2019)

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the cut made on the upper rim to fit a cover lock, and the central drain -- some remains of a modern wooden cover can be discerned at the back

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2019 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 September 2019)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/99006-Ceresola.htm] [accessed 11 September 2019]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the village is almost abandoned; the medieval church building re-built by a local association in the 1980s

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio García Omedes, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/99006-Ceresola.htm] [accessed 11 September 2019]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the basin of the font can be discerned here on the left, built into the north wall, needless to say, not its original position in the church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2019 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 September 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22327CER
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación [in runs]
Church Patron Saints: The Purification of St. Mary
Church Location: 22623 Cerésola, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A-1604, S of the N-260 in the municipality and 15-20 km ESE of Sabiñánigo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro
Historical Region: Jacetania / Alto Gállego / Tierras de La Guarguera
Font Location in Church: Inside the ruinous church, built into the N(?) wall
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com] and Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for their photographs of, and information on church and font
Church Notes: original(?) 12thC church; modified 17th and 18thC; damaged in the Spainsh Civil War (1936-1939); re-built 1980s -- 14thC mural paintings now in the Museo Diocesano de Jaca [http://www.patrimoniodehuesca.es/ceresola-huesca-iglesia-la-purificacion-pintura-s-xiv-museo-diocesano-jaca/] [accessed 11 September 2019]
Basin of a crude and probably early font built into the north wall of the nave at some point in its past; it iis decorated with a single pattern line of zig-zag around the basin side; a large cut was made onto the upper rim to fit a large cover lock; the inner basin is unlined and has a centre drain hole. The is a portion of a wooden cover jammed at the back; it appears modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 726840 4702153

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]