Boltana / Boltaña / Boltanya / Baltania

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Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 December 2019)

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view of font

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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)

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: all around
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)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

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 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

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)

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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)

INFORMATION

Font ID: 22476BOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1639?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 22340 Boltaña, Huesca, Spain
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here?)
Font Notes:
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)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jaime Zabalozuazola Alustiza for his fotographs of this church and font

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