Costana / La Costana

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Scene Description: "SANCIUS ME FECIT"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_LA_COSTANA.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023]

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symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle

Scene Description: Large potent cross inside a circle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_LA_COSTANA.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "La iglesia de San Pablo junto a la torre medieval de los Bustamante"

Image Source: edited detail of an image in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_LA_COSTANA.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023]

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Image Source: García Guinea (1996: [59])

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00439COS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pable

Church Patron Saints: St. Paul

Church Location: La Costana, Campoo de Yuso, 39292, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: La Costana is located off the CA-171 [aka Reinosa-Corconte Rd], in the municipality of Campoo de Yuso, 10-15 kms E of Reinosa.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Santander province

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Church Notes: 13thC church; modified 16th, 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

***GET PICS https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_LA_COSTANA.pdf Described in Garcia Guinea (1979), and illustrated in the same author's later work (1996): the font is a hemispherical basin with upper vertical sides mounted on a cylindrical base; there is a large encircled potent cross on the side of the basin and an inscription above it: "SANCIUS ME FECIT". Noted in Múñiz López & García Alvarez-Busto (2007). Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_LA_COSTANA.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023]: "La pila bautismal, románica con seguridad, es semiesférica, y muy interesante por llevar debajo del bocel de laembocadura el nombre de su autor –SANCIUS ME FECIT– con letras de la época, y una cruz patada, inscrita en círculo. Medidas: 92 centímetros de diámetro y 84 de altura."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.01516, -3.99431

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 0' 55" N, 3° 59' 40" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Garcia Guinea dates the font to the early 13th c. based on the unctial M of the inscription.

Inscription Location: Basin side

Inscription Text: "SANCIUS ME FECIT"

Inscription Source: Garcia Guinea (1979: 292) and (1996: [59]); Enciclopedia del romanico...

REFERENCES

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

Múñiz López, Iván, "La pila bautismal de tradición prerrománica de Castrillón (Asturias): el control señorial del bautismo", 2 (2007), Territorio, sociedad y poder, 2007, pp. 265-274; r["References"]