Abia de las Torres / Avia

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Christ - Christ in Majesty - Pantocrator

Scene Description: Christ in Majestry with symbols of four apostles

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph in Círculo Románico [www.circulo-romanico.com/imagenes/banco_de_fotos_-_photos_bank/lugares_romanicos__places_sites_/espana/castilla_y_leon/palencia/a_-_b/abia_de_las_torres/abia_de_las_torres.nuestra_senora_de_la_asuncion__palencia_/abia_de_las_torres.nuestra_senora_de_la_asuncion__palencia__circuloromanico_7.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2020]

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: the full view of the Baptism of Christ scene with an angel in attendance at each extreme, next to the two figures, a female on the left and a male [priest?] on the right, and Jhon and Christ in the centre

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image [by Maria Altuna?] in farm7.staticflickr.com [accessed 27 November 2020]

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - detail

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ. To the left of Christ are: an angel, a woman (Mary?), St John; on the right there are two angels

New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - detail of angel holding cloth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 1997 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - cross

Scene Description: winged serpent / dragon with a cross over it..

Image Source: photograph in Círculo Románico [www.circulo-romanico.com/foro_club_del_romanico/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=208&start=10] [accessed 27 November 2020]

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information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 11 August 1997 by BSI

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2009 by Valdavia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Abia_de_las_Torres_001.JPG] [accessed 27 November 2020]

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 1997 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00114ABI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora / Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de La Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Calle Pozuelo, 4, 34491 Abia de las Torres, Palencia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 979 81 71 44

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the P-240, W of the A67, 4 km WNW of Osorno, 55-60 km W of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Historical Region: Comarca de Tierra de Campos / Castilla la Vieja

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel to the W of the main S door

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Miguel Ángel Martín of Círculo Románico for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: 15thC church; re-built 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Sancho Campo (1971). Described in Martín González (1977- ). Described and illustrated in García Guinea (1995) and (1998), and in Bilbao (1996): the font has three basic scenes in the sequence of Baptism of Christ, Serpent and Cross, Christ in Majesty, each scene framed in a thick rim. The baptismal scene has an unusual number of figures present, including John the Baptist holding a water jug, three angels holding pieces of linen, and St. Mary; a large dragon is held down by a cross of irregular length arms. García Guinea (1998) describes the form and iconography as still very Romanesque ["tipo iconográfico y formal muy románico todavía"], but he assigns a Gothic chronology at least to the mid 13th century ["momento ya plenamente gótico (siglo XIII avanzado, al menos)"]. Described and illustrated in Martín Jiménez (2008). On-site notes: this font has three basic scenes on it: 1)Baptism of Christ with [L->R] angel, woman holding vase, John the Baptist, Jesus, figure [male? priest?] holing book, angel with garments]; 2)winged serpent / dragon with cross above it; 3)Pantocrator / Christ in Majesty with the Four Evangelists' symbols; it is a later work; the number of figures in the Baptism scene is rather unusual; centre dain in the basin; no cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 383442 4697012

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 18 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 84 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 80 cm*

Basin Total Height: 80 cm*

Height of Base: 16 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm* / 86 cm** / 86 cm***

Font Height (with Plinth): 112 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 300) / *** García Guinea (1998: 392)

REFERENCES

Inventario artístico de Soria y su provincia, Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 1989

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Palencia, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, 1990

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998

Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980

Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008

Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002

Sancho Campo, Angel, Arte sacro en Palencia, Palencia: Obispado de Palencia, Comisión Diocesana de Arte, 1971