Villamonico No. 2 / Vila Monniçio / Villa Munnico / Villamoñico

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon? - with unidentified animal (snake?)

Scene Description: An unidentified animal faces or fights a serpent (?)

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 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 - disc

Scene Description: a row of, some damaged

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8 petal

Scene Description: encircled flowers/rosettes with eight petals; one to either side of the Latin cross; another, to the right, after the cross-in-a-circle motif

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: seen here at the far right, after the rosette motif, to the right of the Latin cross

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoiled ringlet

Scene Description: on the basin side, between the fighting animals and the rosette that is situated on the left of the Latin cross

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a thick one, all around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: more irregular than is the usual in this area

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: the two are identical and situated on the right and left arms of the Latin corss respectively

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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symbol - cross - Latin - pattée - on a plinth

Scene Description: the tall cross breaks the ribbed pattern of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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symbol - key - two crossed keys in X arrangement

Scene Description: situated between the rosette and the fighting animals

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in García Guinea (1996: [60])

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view of church exterior - north view - corbel

Scene Description: Source caption: "En cuanto a los canecillos que quedan están situados en un trozo de cornisa abocelada de lo que era el muro norte de la Iglesia original románica. De todos ellos destaca uno en particular [...] que representa una tortuga o galápago."

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - north view - corbel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - west façade - window

Scene Description: Source caption: "La ventana del hastial tiene columnas de capiteles dobles, uno de ellos reutilizado como basa."

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista de Villamoñico (Cantabria) desde el mirador de Valcabado"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2018 by Discasto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista_de_Villamoñico,_Palencia_(29_de_abril_de_2018,_mirador_de_Valcabado).jpg] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of font - projection

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in García Guinea (1996: [60])

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00446VIL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Barrio Villamoñico, 40, 39250 Villamoñico, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Located off the CA-751, about 15 km E of Aguilar de Campoo, in the municipality of Valderredible, 18 km WSW of Polientes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo - Los VallesSantander province / Merindad de Aguilar de Campoo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com] and to Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com], and to Montserrat Estela, Barcelona, Spain, for their images of this church and font]

Church Notes: Romanesque church re-built Baroque period; modified 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Garcia Guinea (1979: 292) and (1996: 60-61). García Guinea (1998: 5) describes it as well evolved and of difficult dating, and suggests possibly a cock as the animal fighting the snake. The entry for this church in Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/la-asuncion-de-villamoñico] [accessed 7 March 2021] notes: "poco queda ya de la fábrica románica en la Iglesia de la Asunción, a saber, algunos canecillos de la cornisa, una ventana y una bella pila bautismal en el interior, así como alguna pieza de la espadaña original. La Iglesia fue renovada totalmente en los siglos XVI-XVII [...] En el interior de la Iglesia encontramos una pila bautismal con gallones rehundidos en la parte baja. En la banda superior tiene motivos de tipo geométrico, animales y flores." Baptismal font of stone, goblet-shaped basin on a squat round-to-square base; the tapering basin has a wide roll moulding at the upper rim, below which there is a wide band with a variety of several symbols, among which are three 8-petal rosettes, a number of encircled Greek cross, a dragon(?) fighting a snake, etc; on the front(?) and occupying the full height is a Latin cross on a mound, with scrolls issuing from the underarms, the mound with steps; crossed; the round-to-square base has a row of discs all around, although partially damaged. No cover present [NB: the font is now [2020] standing in the chancel, south side, and can be seen from all angles; it had been earlier agaist a wall and some of the carving details were not visible]. [cf. BSI entry for Villamonico No. 1 for an abandoned stone basin in this church, possibly the remains of its medieval font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 413044 4736963

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: goblet-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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