San Martin de Quevedo / San Martín de Quevedo

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animal - bird

Scene Description: seen here in the left spandrel

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals

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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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design element - motifs - plant or tree

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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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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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view of basin - interior

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view of font - upper view

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00441MAR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Asunción [aka Santa María]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: San Martín de Quevedo, 39438 Molledo, Cantabria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove fashioned as baptistery
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoien for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: church originally 12thC (apse, corbels and some capitals); modified 18thC
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.12836, -4.0394
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 8' 8.08" N, 4° 2' 29.01" W
UTM: 30T 386412 4776969

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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
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"]