Espluga / Esplluga / Espluga de Merli

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: the supports are concave flutes, rather than the usual convex piping

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Image Source: digital photograph December 2013 by Francisco Martí Fornés in Románico en Ribagorza [https://romanicoribagorzano.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/foradada-santa-leocadia-de-espluga-de-merli/] [accessed 25 July 2022]

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: a row of

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Portada al sur de grandes dovelas, moldurada y con algún sillar punteado en las jambas. La cobija un pórtico de época posterior a la portada, cuyas dovelas tapa parcialmente. El pórtico continúa hacia el este cubriendo también la zona de la capilla sur, iluminada con una pequeña ventana de arco de medio punto monolítico."

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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] December 2013 by Francisco Martí Fornés in Románico en Ribagorza [https://romanicoribagorzano.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/foradada-santa-leocadia-de-espluga-de-merli/] [accessed 25 July 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "De una nave cubierta con bóveda de cañón. Tiene capillas laterales, dos al norte y una al sur, y cabecera plana orientada al este."

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the northwest corner of the nave, beneath the gallery

view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "A la derecha de la entrada hay una pila de agua bendita, semiempotrada, con pie."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24145ESP
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Leocadia / Església de Santa Llogaia
Church Patron Saints: St. Leocadia
Church Location: 22451 Espluga, Huesca, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Huesca, Aragón
Directions to Site: Located off local road HU-V-8601, just E of Campo and the N-260, in the municipality of Foradada del Toscar [earlier in Merli], about 25 km N of Graus
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Barbastro–Monzón
Historical Region: Ribagorza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Gothic
Church Notes: church documented 1089
Listed and illustrated in Gavín (1977) as a Romanesque baptismal font in the church of Santa Llogaia, Espluga, in the municipality of Merli. Baptismal font noted and illustrated in SIPCA [http://www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-004-111-014/Iglesia/de/Santa/Leocadia.html] [accesed 25 July 2022]: "Tiene pila bautismal semiesférica, decorada con gallones. Está decorada con policromía. Soporte cilíndrico de corta longitud y fuste helicoidal." The entry for this church in Románico en Ribagorza [https://romanicoribagorzano.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/foradada-santa-leocadia-de-espluga-de-merli/] [accessed 25 July 2022] by Francisco Martí Fornés notes: "Lo más interesante de la iglesia se halla en el ángulo noroeste. Se trata de una pila bautismal con tapa de madera, de tradición románica y decorada con formas gallonadas, policromada con predominan de tonos rojos y azules. Las arcuaciones del cuerpo de la pila finalizan en la parte superior en una franja entre molduras decorada con bolas." The crude, roughly hemispheric basin has a row of ball-motif, with a tall blind arcade which covers the rest of the basin and underbowl; the diagonal ribbing on the short base suggests a Gothic period. Another oddity is the concave flutes used for the support of the arch heads, another indication of a late-medieval date. the base is a very short round pedestal with a diagonal fluting pattern. Flat plain wooden cover hinged at the back. Also in this church is a partially wall-mounted holy-water stoup by the entrance; it is roughly hemispherical with a single flat moulding at the upper rim; stands also on a round slender pedestal base.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain

REFERENCES

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Gavín, Josep M., Inventari d'esglésies [28+ vols.], Barcelona: Arxiu Gavín / Artestudi, 1977-