Fuentes3

By Fuentes3

San Bartolomé, Nava

The romanesque church of San Bartolomé, Nava, is no more. It was destroyed in 1934, in the time of the Asturian Rebellion which provided the run-up to the Spanish Civil War. The modern and functional church that has replaced it doesn´t have any romanesque interest. But there is a reference to the former church that says that at the time of the destruction a number of romanesque artefacts were rescued and moved to the municipal cemetery. 
Well, they´re not labelled anywhere, and there wasn´t any obvious explanation, but these may be them. 
The lion is one of two, probably carved by someone who´d never seen even a photo of a lion, stationed either side of the main gate. The first extra is a pre-romanesque window, with a perhaps rather grotesque little figure underneath it; and the second extra is - well, a window... I´ve no idea how to date it. Both those windows are located on a small chapel in the cemetery. 
I also found a small medieval bridge in Nava, which I´ll use to backfill on March 24th, a date I missed recently. 

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