San Martin de Quevedo / San Martín de Quevedo
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view of font - upper view
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view of basin - interior
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animal - bird
Scene Description: seen here in the left spandrel
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: unlike GG's drawing, the identification of the real motif is not that easy; is this a double-axe?
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien
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design element - motifs - plant or tree
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing two of the decorated spandrels; the vegetal motif exceeded the available space but thr carver invaded the flat moulding at the upper rim
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien
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design element - motifs - axe - double-axe?
Scene Description: the motifs does look like a double-axe in Garcia Guinea's drawing, but...
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Angel García Guinea, 1996
Image Source: García Guinea (1996: [59])
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00441MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de la Asunción [aka Santa María]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove fashioned as baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: church originally 12thC (apse, corbels and some capitals); modified 18thC
Church Address: San Martín de Quevedo, 39438 Molledo, Cantabria, Spain
Site Location: Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km N of the Embalse del Ebro, ENE of Reinosa, in the municipality and 2 km S of Molledo, 56 km from Santander capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Comarca del Besaya, Santander province
Font Notes:
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Karlsson (1989) notes a splendid cauldron-shaped font ornamented with round arches on the sides; in one spandrel, a fruit-bearing tree; in another, a bird. Garcia Guinea (1979) and (1996) mentions also a double-axe in another spandrel. Noted and illustrated in the entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_SAN_MARTÍN_DE_QUEVEDO.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023]: Conserva en el baptisterio pila románica decorada con arcos de medio punto que apoyan en cimacios simples. En las enjutas de estos arcos hay emblemas como árbol, pájaro, martillo, hoja, etc." The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with an arcade of round arches on columns with capitals; the lower part of the columns just disappears at the bottom of the underbowl; as indicated above some of the spandrels are decorated with motifs or symbols; the basin is raised on a squat multipart stone base of cylindrical shape. not known whether original or a later addition or replacement. There is no cover present now but the upper rim shows evidence of anchorings.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoien for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 386412 4776969
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.12836, -4.0394
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 8' 8.08" N, 4° 2' 29.01" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 290, fig. 117
- 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. 150, ill. on p. 149