Costana / La Costana
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symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle
Scene Description: Large potent cross inside a circle
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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: "SANCIUS ME FECIT"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
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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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Angel García Guinea, 1996
Image Source: García Guinea (1996: [59])
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00439COS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pable
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Church Notes: 13thC church; modified 16th, 18thC
Church Address: La Costana, Campoo de Yuso, 39292, Cantabria, Spain
Site Location: Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, Europe
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
Additional Comments: authored font / signed font: the name of the master carver, "Sancius" [Sancho] appears on it
Font Notes:
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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."
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
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.01516, -3.99431
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 Location: Basin side
Inscription Text: "SANCIUS ME FECIT"
Inscription Notes: Garcia Guinea dates the font to the early 13th c. based on the unctial M of the inscription.
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, p. [59]
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979, p. 292, fig. 103
- 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; p. 271