Osia No. 1

The entry for this rural chapel in Rafael Leante y Garcia's 'Culto de Maria en la Diócesis de Jaca ; o sea, Memoria histórica y religioso [...]' (Lerida: Imprenta Mariana, 1889) gives a description of the chapel and its contents, but does not mention this object [which at the time may have been serving as water trough outside]. Illustrated in Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com/0-Jacetania/Osia G24.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2020]. A document of the MODIFICACIÓN DEL PLAN GENERAL DE ORDENACIÓN URBANA DE JACA [www.jaca.es/sites/default/files/iv.4-osia_comprimido.pdf] [accessed 25 June 2020] identifies this church as "Ermita de San Juan Bautista o de la Virgen del Rosario" and dates it 12th-century; inside the rural chapel the document identifies a "Pila bautismal cuadrada rota en dos, con sus cuatro aristas labradas, deteriorada en sus partes altas y labios". The object identified as a baptismal font is a quadrangular vessel of stone, now badly damaged and broken diagonally into two; three of the sides have their upper end missing, but the fourth appears more or less intact, indicating the low height of the vessel; the vertical corners show column-like decoration, now damaged and eroded, and one side shows the remains of what may have been a rosette motif originally. No cover present.