Zamora No. 4
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Results: 25 records
B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: Woman (?) on the left (Mary?) and man on the far right; between them stands Christ, crowned with a dove above him
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
B02: angel - archangel - St. Michael and dragon? - holding bowl?
Scene Description: the haloed and winged figure is 3/4 turned to the left, an angel; the left hand appears to hold an object and has a cloth or maniple hanging from the wrist; there is a definite reptilian curved tail at the feet of the angel, which strongly siggests an identification as St. Michael
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter? - holding 1 key? - holding a book in his left arm - pointing
Scene Description: haloed; not clear whether the object in his right hand is a key or a censer; the book is held in the crook of the left arm while the hand points to the left his extended index finger
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
B04: Apostle or saint - haloed - holding book in left hand - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
B05: Apostle or saint - haloed - holding open book in both hands - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
B06: Apostle or saint - haloed - holding a scroll - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
B07: angel - holding scroll
Scene Description: or is it the attending angel holdint clothes? haloed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 7 - columns with capitals and bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
view of church exterior - apse - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_Apsis_853.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - apse - window
Scene Description: the central window of the apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_Apsis_1851.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - apse - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_Apsis_865.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - apse - window
Scene Description: on the north side of the apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
view of church exterior - apse - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_Apsis_863.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - apse - window - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_Apsis_865.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - apse - window - detail
Scene Description: the capitals of the north window of the apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
view of church exterior - apse - window - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_Apsis_863.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jose Luis Filpo Cabana, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2014 by Jose Luis Filpo Cabana
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2008 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_Maria_la_Nueva_de_Zamora_9.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - souheast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zamora_Santa_María_la_Nueva_866.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2015]
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view of church interior
Scene Description: remains of mural paintings on the inner walls of the church; still visible are partial scenes of the Childhood of Christ cycle: Flight to Egypt, Visitation, Annunciation, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
view of church interior
Scene Description: the baptismal font in the background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
view of church interior - woodwork
Scene Description: remains of medieval painted woodwork
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photographed 10 June 1999 by BSI
view of font in context
Scene Description: in a chapel in the soutwest area
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 August 2015)
view of font in context
Scene Description: the baptismal during the process of restoration of the building in 2009-2010
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sergio Pérez Martín, 2015
Image Source: photograph in Sergio Pérez Martín [www.hermandadyacente.es/santa-maria-nueva.html] [accessed 8 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 00132MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María la Nueva [originally San Román]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [originally St. Romanus]
Church Location: Plaza Santa María la Nueva, 1, 49004 Zamora, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Zamora, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the Plaza de Santa María la Nueva, in the city centre at Zamora capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Zamora
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: early-12thC original church dedicated to San Román burned down 1158;
Font Notes:
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Dated in Garnacho (1878: 27) in the early 11th century. Noted in Gómez Moreno (1903-1905): "La pila bautismal, que data del siglo XIII, probablemente […] Es de piedra tosca zamorana, y en su periferia grabáronse siete arcos rebajados, sobre columnas, conteniendo figuras de relieve, muy desgastadas ya, que representan el bautismo de Cristo, con corona real y la paloma encima, un ángel incensándole, tres santos con barba, casulla y libro, y dos profetas con rótulos”. Listed in Cobreros (1993). Described and illustrated in Sáinz Sáiz (1999) and in Rivera de las Heras (2001): tub-shaped Romanesque baptismal font; the sides are ornamented with seven arches that contain a scene of the Baptism of Christ, figures of several Apostles/saints among which Rivera de las Heras (ibid.) identifies St. Peter and St. John, and a censer-bearing angel [one of the arches has an angel carrying a bowl (censer?) in its left hand; the figure identified by Rivera de las Heras (ibid.) as Peter carries in his right hand an object that hangs low and could be either a key or a censer]. Described and illustrated in Fernández Mateos (2010). The font is raised on a circular plinth. There is no font cover present. On-site notes: the font is in rather a poor condition, the carving being very eroded; two metal staples are still evident on the rim, witnesses of an earlier font cover. A church hand-out [cf. BSI file] dates the font to the 13th century and identifies the stone as local ["de piedra tosca zamorana" [cf. supra]]. The font, together with the building itself and the mural paintings, was restored in 2009-2010 [cf. report by Sergio Pérez Martín in 'Iglesia de Santa María la Nueva. Una aproximación a su restauración' [www.hermandadyacente.es/santa-maria-nueva.html] [accessed 8 August 2015]: "Su deterioro se debía en gran medida a la naturaleza de su piedra, vulnerable, en este caso, a la humedad por capilaridad que ascendía desde el suelo, por lo que hubo de levantarse y desplazarse para la impermeabilización de su base. Su tratamiento subsanó las patologías derivadas del problema anterior y actuó sobre los males derivados de su propio uso, con suciedad o depósitos de cera. En su desagüe pudieron localizarse además los hierros que armarían su primitiva tapadera o cierre." Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del romanico...
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.503328, -5.749256
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 30′ 11.98″ N, 5° 44′ 57.32″ W
UTM: 30T 270540 4598283
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [local Zamoran stone]
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 21-22 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 92 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 135-136 cm* / 136 cm**
Basin Depth: 60 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm* / 86 cm**
Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Enciclopedia del romanico...
REFERENCES
Cobreros, Jaime, Románico en España (Guías Periplo), Madrid: Incafo, 1993
Fernández Mateos, Rubén, Todo el románico de Zamora, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2010
Rivera de las Heras, José Angel, Por la catedral, iglesias y ermitas de la ciudad de Zamora, León: Edilesa, 2001
Sáinz Sáiz, Javier, El románico en Zamora, León: Ediciones Lancia, 1999