Boltana / Boltaña / Boltanya / Baltania

Image copyright © Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza, 2019
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
design element - motifs - rope moulding
inscription
view of church exterior - portal - detail
Scene Description: originally found built into the north wall; restored and installed above the south portal; said to be late-12thC [https://museodiocesano.es/2012/03/22/un-nuevo-crismon-trinitario-en-la-diocesis/] [accessed 18 December 2019]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2018 by Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)
view of church interior - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 22476BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 22340 Boltaña, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N-260, 6-7 km NW of Ainsa, S of the Parque Nacional de Ordesa and Monte Perdido
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Barbastro
Historical Region: Comarca de Sobrarbe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1639?
Century and Period: 17th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza for his fotographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Font noted in SIPCA [http://www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-003-066-086/Iglesia/de/San/Pedro/Ap%F3stol.html] [accessed 18 December 2019]. Baptismal font dated with inscription to 1639. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with large fleurs-de-lis motifs on the sides, and a rope moulding around the lower edge; raised of a short square pedestal base, and a circular lower base on which is the inscription that contains the date. The church itself is dated to 1544 in Sainz de Baranda's La Santa Iglesia de Barbastro en sus estados antiguo y moderno (Madrid, 1862: 124)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 258778 4703911
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the upper side of the lower base
Inscription Text: "[...] 1639 [...]"
Inscription Source: cf. Images area