Santona / Puerto de Santona / Puerto de Santoña / Santoña

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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation

Scene Description: The angel announces to Mary; in a corner a male figure, Joseph with staff. Mary is seated on a chair with a stool for her feet

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Joseph?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary and Gabriel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: a lion facing another lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other

Scene Description: a lion facing another lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

cleric - monk - 2 - reading open book

Scene Description: Two clerics holding a single book betwen the hind quarters of the two lions

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

cleric? - monk?

Scene Description: semi-hidden on the basin side, between the ribs, above the lion's rump

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - interlace - 2-strand - beads

Scene Description: perforated beads in the inner spaces of the interlace pattern

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all around the surface of the inner basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 5 August 2004 by Nicolás Pérez [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Cantabria_Santo%C3%B1a_Santa_Maria_Puerto_02_lou.JPG] [accessed 27 December 2011]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the Annunciation scene and the lion heads below

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the two reading monks on the base, between the lions' rumps; on the basin side, between the ribs, a human figure resembling also a monk

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI

view of font - back side

Image Source: García Guinea (1996: 79)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font - front side

Image Source: García Guinea (1996: 79)

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 00431SAN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [formerly collegiate] de Santa María del Puerto

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: C. Virgen del Puerto, 25, 39740 Santoña, Cantabria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 942 66 01 55

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Located on the CA-141-CA-241, at the mouth of the Ria de Santoña, across from Laredo and Colindres, 48 km E of Santander

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Santander province / Junta de Siete Villas, Merindad de Trasmiera

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Bareyo (Santander)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his additional photographs of church and font

Church Notes: the original church belonged to the monastery founded here by the Benedictines in the 8th/9thC; a legend mentions an earlier church founded here by the Apostle St. James in 37 A.D.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Karlsson (1989) reported the font raised on a three-step base [cf. infra]. Garcia Guinea (1996) and (1979) identifies the scene on the basin side also as the Annunciation and figure on the right as Joseph. Campuzano Ruiz (1985) suggests the Annunciation plus John the Baptist. The entry for Santoña in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_SANTOÑA.pdf] [accessed 23 February 2023] describes and illustrates the font, "una de las piezas románicas de este tipo más interesantes y bellas de Cantabria", which it dates to the late-12th or early-13th century. On-site notes: late 12th or early 13th-century chalice-shaped font; the hemispherical bowl has vertical rib pattern throughout on the outside, and concave rib pattern on the inside; broad horizontal band of two-strand interlacing motif with perforated beads around the external upper basin side, below the upper rim; the front side of the basin has a scene with three figures: on the left an angel; in the centre a woman; on the right a man, probably the Annunciation by Grabriel to the Virgin in the presence of Joseph, whose head is turned away and downwards; there is one other human figure on the side of the basin, semi-hidden in the ribs; it looks male and possibly tonsured, a monk?; below, carved on the base and facing towards the front of the font, two lions; on the opposite side of the base, at the back, between the rumps of the lions, two monks/clerics read a book. The font is at present [June 1999; December 2011] standing directly on the ground of the church, without any additional plinth [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.441919, -3.451364

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 26′ 30.91″ N, 3° 27′ 4.91″ W

UTM: 30T 4809990 463475

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 11-12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 96-98 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm* / 132 cm**

Basin Depth: 40 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Height of Base: 40 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* / 110 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Enciclopedia del romanico

REFERENCES

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

Campuzano Ruiz, Enrique, Gótico en Cantabria, Santander: Ediciones de Libreria Estudio, 1985

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Cantabria, Santander: Ediciones de Librería Estvdio, 1996

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979

Herrero Marcos, Jesús, Arquitectura y simbolismo del románico de Cantabria, Madrid: Ars Magna, 1996

Karlsson, Lennart, "De gatfulla dopfuntsfragmenten i Sigtuna", LVIII, 4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1989, pp. 143-150, 10 ill.; r["References"]