Santona / Puerto de Santona / Puerto de Santoña / Santoña
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2011
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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
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue
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Scene Description: showing the Annunciation scene and the lion heads below
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Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2011 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: all around the surface of the inner basin
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs - moulding
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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
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design element - patterns - interlace - 2-strand - beads
Scene Description: perforated beads in the inner spaces of the interlace pattern
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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cleric? - monk?
Scene Description: semi-hidden on the basin side, between the ribs, above the lion's rump
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nicolás Pérez, 2004
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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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary and Gabriel
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animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other
Scene Description: a lion facing another lion
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cleric - monk - 2 - reading open book
Scene Description: Two clerics holding a single book betwen the hind quarters of the two lions
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Joseph?
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animal - mammal - lion
Scene Description: a lion facing another lion
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Angel García Guinea, 1996
Image Source: García Guinea (1996: 79)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Angel García Guinea, 1996
Image Source: García Guinea (1996: 79)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00431SAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-06-15
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Bareyo (Santander)
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial [formerly collegiate] de Santa María del Puerto
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
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.
Church Address: C. Virgen del Puerto, 25, 39740 Santoña, Cantabria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 942 66 01 55
Site Location: Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 9th-12thC church here?)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his additional photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 4809990 463475
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.441919, -3.451364
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 26′ 30.91″ N, 3° 27′ 4.91″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 113 fn155, 155 fn31
- Campuzano Ruiz, Enrique, Gótico en Cantabria, Santander: Ediciones de Libreria Estudio, 1985, p. 163 and ill. on p. 161
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Cantabria, Santander: Ediciones de Librería Estvdio, 1996, p. 60, 77-79 and pl. between pp. 48-49
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979, p. 382, 383
- Herrero Marcos, Jesús, Arquitectura y simbolismo del románico de Cantabria, Madrid: Ars Magna, 1996, [n/a]
- Karlsson, Lennart, "De gatfulla dopfuntsfragmenten i Sigtuna", LVIII, 4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1989, pp. 143-150, 10 ill.; p. 45 (ill. in the same page)