Salcedo in Valderredible / Salzedo

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Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - crossing arch-heads

Scene Description: around the side of the basin, below the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: around the lower side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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design element - patterns - hatching - parallel - 4

Scene Description: the top one just below the upper rim; the bottom one on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - crossing arch-heads

Scene Description: around the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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design element - patterns - hatching

Scene Description: towards the bottom of the stem; very damaged now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: probably one at each corner; only the one seen here on the right side appears to have survived whole
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
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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: 00444SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Andrés
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in its own cubicle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: present church is Baroque
Church Address: Barrio Salcedo, 22-20, 39220 Salcedo, Cantabria, Spain
Site Location: Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the CA-274, in the municipality of Valderredible, 5-6 km N of Polientes, ENE of Aguilar de Campoo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo-Los Valles / Santander province
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Garcia Guinea (1979) and (1996) Noted in Huerta Huerta (Enciclopedia del Romanico en Castilla y Leon) as a group of cognate fonts at: "Lomas de Villamediana, Villamediana de Lomas, Linares de Bricia, Crespos, Quintanilla-Colina y Brullés, [...] Villaescusa de Ebro [now in] San Martín de Elines), Quin[t]anilla de An, Revelillas, Ruijas, Espinosa de Bricia, Repudio y Salcedo." The entry in the digital version of the Enciclopedia [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/SALCEDO_0.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023] notes: "prisionera en un cierre de balaustres de madera, una bella y bien tallada pila bautismal semiesférica, que lleva como decoración, de arriba abajo: un estrecho bocel remarcando la boca, con una especie de puntos excisos de “engranaje”. Debajo de éste, se dibujan, con no muy marcado relieve, arcos de medio punto cruzados que descansan en otro listel de “engranaje”, similar al primero. Viene después una ancha banda, limpia de figuraciones, para terminar en otra, que dibuja secuencia continua de dientes de lobo, o triángulos isósceles que van colocados entre dos ribetes del repetido engranaje. En la misma piedra se talla un tenante cilíndrico que va igualmente decorado con arcos de medio punto, cruzados y el filete de “engranaje”. Toda esta copa carga sobre un plinto cuadrado de poca altura que lleva en las esquinas bolas, y que, a su vez, reposa sobre un gran banco circular. Mide la pila 92 cm de alto y 89 de diámetro. El borde plano de la embocadura, hasta que recorta por la excavación, es de 10 cm y en él se graban dos franjas paralelas de cuadraditos separadas por una incisión bastante profunda." The same entry in the Enciclopedia describes a holy-water stoup of a later period: "En la misma nave, pero hacia la cabecera, existe otra pila, que suponemos benditera, que ya parece de cronología más avanzada, dudando mucho que sea románica. Lleva en la copa serie de arquillos de medio punto, como gajos profundos, que son separados por una cruz latina. Mide, con su basamento, alto y complicado, 1,08 m, siendo sólo la copa de 39 cm."


Baptismal font of stone consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with two bands or ornamentation; the one below the rim has a pattern of intersecting round arch-heads sandwiched between thwo thin tapes of hatching pattern; another band, also framed between hatching tape, has saw-tooth pattern all around, the teeth point upwards; the short cylindrical stem has the same intersecting arch-head pattern seen on the basin with a single hatching tape, the latter almost entirely obliterated now; the round-to-square lower base has motifs at the angles, one of them clearly a ball, but the others are too damaged for identification. No cover present.
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 font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 422466 4742250
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.82855, -3.94922

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del romanico

REFERENCES

  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-, [http://www.romaniconorte.org/es/contenido/index.asp?iddoc=74] [accessed 18 April 2009]
  • 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, p. [59]
  • García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979, p. 290, 292, fig. 112