Puente del Valle / La Puente del Valle

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl sides

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2

Scene Description: on the upper surface of the rim

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: one up, one down

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

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Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2017 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00445VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Roque y Santa María

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Rock

Church Location: La Puente del Valle, 39250, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Located off the S-614, in the municipality of Valderredible and 5 km W of Polientes, about 25-30 km E of Aguilar de Campoo

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Santander province

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

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

Church Notes: present church 18thC -- some sources give the dedication to San Vicente Mártir; others to San Pantaleón, but the latter appears to be the dedication of the nearby 'ermita', a rock church

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Illustrated in Calderón Escalada (1971: p. between 40-41) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; hemispherical basin ornamented with a rope motif on the side and ribbed pattern or narrow arcade on the underbowl. The stem of the base is round and has a rol moulding on the upper end. It stands on a plain circular plinth. Described and illustrated in García Guinea (1979: 287) and (1996: [59]): rope motif right below the rim; narrow arcade with round arches, at least one of which contains a pair of Maltese-cross-in-a-circle, one up, one down; a thin moulding at the bottom of the underbowl; on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a circular lower base, both plain. No cover present but damage at opposite ends of the upper rim speak of metal anchorings from an earlier cover. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/cantabria_PUENTE_DEL_VALLE%2C_LA.pdf] [accessed 28 February 2023] notes: "en la parroquial actual del pueblo existe una pila románica, con toda seguridad, equivalente, en tamaño y trabajo, a cualquiera de las mejores del valle, con las siguientes medidas y decoración: altura general, 90 cm; solamente la cuba, 45 cm; diámetro de ésta, 89 cm. Anchura del borde en su parte horizontal, 12 cm, y va surcado por dos líneas paralelas bien marcadas. La forma general de la cuba es hemiesférica aplastada. Y la decoración, de arriba abajo, es: bocel en la embocadura, canal marcado, sogueado de pocos centímetros, secuencia de arcaduras de medio punto que apoyan sobre finos listeles verticales llevando la central, en su dintorno, dos rosáceas inscritas en círculo, una sobre otra. El pie es cilíndrico y apoya sobre basa de mayor tamaño, también cilíndrica."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.79545, -3.98486

UTM: 30T 419562 4738550

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: 3

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 12 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm*

Basin Total Height: 45 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del romanico

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Calderón Escalada, José, Campoo: panorama histórico y etnográfico de un valle, Santander: Institución Cultural de Cantabria, Diputación Provincial, 1971

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