Espinosa de Bricia No. 1

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: a pair of very thin mouldings all around

Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2017 by Andrés Serna López, El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: below the second band of saw-tooth motif

Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2017 by Andrés Serna López, El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com

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design element - patterns - sawtooth - parallel - 2

Scene Description: the covex carving points up in the upper band, and down in the lower band

Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2017 by Andrés Serna López, El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Andrés Serna López, in El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com/2015/02/solo-romanico-solo-fotos-iglesia-de-la.html] [accessed 6 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de la Asunción, en la localidad de Espinosa de Bricia. Cantabria"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 December 2013 by Jesus Gomez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Espinosa_de_Bricia.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 7 July 2017 by Andrés Serna López, El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in García Guinea (1996: [59])

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00443ESP

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Barrio Espinosa de Bricia, 78, 39232 Espinosa de Bricia, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the SV-6111, W of the N-623, in the municipality of Valderredible, about 10 km ESE of the Embalse del Ebro, 34 km from Polientes, about halfway between Santander (N) and Burgos (S)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo - Los Valles / Santander province

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [moved from its earlier location beneath the W gallery]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Villaescusa de Ebro (Santander), etc. [cfFontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com] for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: present church 15thC; modified 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Like the font from Villaescusa de Ebro [cf. Index entry for San Martin de Elines No. 2], the hemispherical basin has two bands of saw-tooth motif framed between three rope mouldings (Garcia Guinea, 1979: 286, and (1996: [59]). Bilbao (1996: 70 fn9) suggests this font may be from the same workshop as the font at Crespos (Burgos prov.), and the fonts at Quintanilla de An, Revelillas, Ruijas and Villaescusa de Ebro (Santander prov.) The medieval font and a holy-water stoup are noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia de románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_ESPINOSA_DE_BRICIA.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023]: "La pila bautismal también puede asignarse a esta época [i.e., románica], con “dientes de lobo” en dos filas, separadas por sogueado. Está colocada sobre gran basa cilíndrica que sostiene un tambor también cilíndrico. La forma de la copa es casi de una total semiesfera. Tiene un parecido bastante próximo a otras pilas de Valderredible como las de Villaescusa de Ebro, Ruijas, Quintanilla de An, etc., todas ellas a base de talla de “dientes de lobo” en dos filas superpuestas sobre líneas poco resaltadas de baquetón sogueado. Mide esta de Espinosa 99 cm de diámetro; anchura del borde, 17 cm. Altura general, con basas: 100 cm. Altura sólo de la cuba, 60 cm. Una señal del basamento cilíndrico debajo del coro hace suponer que en otro tiempo la pila no tenía el emplazamiento actual. Existe además, en el interior de la iglesia, otra pila, esta vez benditera, de gallones excisos, y borde de bocel. Tiene forma troncocónica y apoya sobre basamentos prismáticos. Mide 53 cm de diámetro, con una altura de la cuba de 48 cm. El pie tiene 46 cm y la anchura del borde 5 cm."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.87252, -3.86218

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 21.07″ N, 3° 51′ 43.85″ W

UTM: 30T 429580 4747019

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 17 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia de románico

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, "Las pilas bautismales románicas de Valderrible", 11 (marzo 1998), Cuadernos de Campoo [electronic version], 1998

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