Garray No. 2

Results: 22 records

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 13 - columns - decorated columns and arches - columns with capitals and bases

some of the arches contain figures, symbols, etc.; others are blank -- mostly double columns, but not all; columns and some of the arches are decorated with torsade pattern, while others show zigzag pattern on them

Scene Description: some of the arches contain figures, symbols, etc.; others are blank -- mostly double columns, but not all; columns and some of the arches are decorated with torsade pattern, while others show zigzag pattern on them

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - circle - concentric

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - triangular petals - in a circle

Scene Description: framed by the arch-head

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

design element - motifs - groove

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

human figure - male - wearing tunic -snake atop

the right side above the human figure shows the coil of the snake's body; what is not clear is whether the end to the right is the snake's head or part of the man's hand or arm, which is broken off below

Scene Description: the right side above the human figure shows the coil of the snake's body; what is not clear is whether the end to the right is the snake's head or part of the man's hand or arm, which is broken off below

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

human figure - small figure on high ledge (medallion or pouch hanging from neck) Judas with bag (?)

this type on 'shelf insert' in an arcade is common on some of the Romanesque fonts of the eastern Pyrenees, on both sides of the border

Scene Description: this type on 'shelf insert' in an arcade is common on some of the Romanesque fonts of the eastern Pyrenees, on both sides of the border

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

human figure - standing - orant

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

human figure - with snakes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

human figure - with snakes - detail

Scene Description: it is clearly a human figure interwined with the bodies of the two (?) snakes

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in circle

Scene Description: Maltese cross in circle

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

view of church interior - altar

the two former capitals that support the altar table -- Description by Antonio Tejedor [www.lafronteradelduero.com/Paginas/garray.html] [accessed 22 August 2015]: "El tablero del altar descansa sobre dos soportes que, por su morfología, bien pudieran ser capiteles dobles desprovistos de los fustes sobre los que irían encaramados y que ahora reposan directamente en las basas de las fragmentadas columnas. Esto, unido a que los supuestos capiteles no tienen tallada la cara estrecha que mira al ábside y que uno de ellos, el del lado de la epístola, tampoco tiene labrada otra de sus caras mayores, induce a pensar que se trata de verdaderos capiteles provenientes del baldaquino desaparecido del absidiolo izquierdo."

Scene Description: the two former capitals that support the altar table -- Description by Antonio Tejedor [www.lafronteradelduero.com/Paginas/garray.html] [accessed 22 August 2015]: "El tablero del altar descansa sobre dos soportes que, por su morfología, bien pudieran ser capiteles dobles desprovistos de los fustes sobre los que irían encaramados y que ahora reposan directamente en las basas de las fragmentadas columnas. Esto, unido a que los supuestos capiteles no tienen tallada la cara estrecha que mira al ábside y que uno de ellos, el del lado de la epístola, tampoco tiene labrada otra de sus caras mayores, induce a pensar que se trata de verdaderos capiteles provenientes del baldaquino desaparecido del absidiolo izquierdo."

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - detail

Description by Antonio Tejedor [www.lafronteradelduero.com/Paginas/garray.html] [accessed 22 August 2015]: "En el capitel del lado del evangelio se representa por su cara externa la escena de la Anunciación en la cesta de la izquierda, y la Visitación en la otra. En la cara frontal se muestra a la Virgen acostada en el lecho dando de mamar al niño Jesús acompañada por dos mujeres que la han asistido en el parto. La cara interna del doble capitel contiene la escena de San José recibiendo en sueños el mensaje tranquilizador de un ángel y la del pesebre en el que se encuentra el recién nacido atentamente observado por el buey y la mula bajo la figura de un ángel."

Scene Description: Description by Antonio Tejedor [www.lafronteradelduero.com/Paginas/garray.html] [accessed 22 August 2015]: "En el capitel del lado del evangelio se representa por su cara externa la escena de la Anunciación en la cesta de la izquierda, y la Visitación en la otra. En la cara frontal se muestra a la Virgen acostada en el lecho dando de mamar al niño Jesús acompañada por dos mujeres que la han asistido en el parto. La cara interna del doble capitel contiene la escena de San José recibiendo en sueños el mensaje tranquilizador de un ángel y la del pesebre en el que se encuentra el recién nacido atentamente observado por el buey y la mula bajo la figura de un ángel."

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, to the right [south of the altar]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2015 by Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 August 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01144GAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Ermita de los Santos Mártires (Nereo, Aquileo, Pancracio y Domitila) (Church dated 1231, font is earlier)

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Martyrs

Church Location: 42162 Garray, Soria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Soria, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located about 7 km from Soria capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Soria

Historical Region: Comarca de Soria

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, to the S of the altar

Date: ca. 1106?

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Romanesque-Mozarabic font?

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Martínez de Ilarduya for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: inscription on a stone of the church: " ANNO D[omin]I MCCXXXI"

Font Notes: Click to view

García Gómez (2007) notes a series of fonts in the area that share a common charateristic in their decoration: round arch-heads with fitting ribs inside (fonts at Blacos, Garray, Muriel de la Fuente, San Esteban de Gormaz and Zayuelas de Soria). The font probably dates from the time of the re-population of the Garray area (ca. 1106). The basin is shaped like an inverted truncated cone and is decorated with irregular round arches containg Visigothic-looking crosses (pattée), concentric circles, rings (representing the sun, the moon), figures (some praying); very crude rendition, appropriate of the secondary workshops which produced many of these artifacts. [NB: García Gómez (ibid.) lists a second Romanesque font in this village [not seen at the time of our visit in May 1999]. On-site notes: 13 arches encircle basin; grooved rim and diagonal lines carved around arcade with twisted columns; crudely carved figues encircle the bowl.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 546171 4629280 1030

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 12-16 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 82-85 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 110-113 cm

Basin Depth: 53 cm

Basin Total Height: 91 cm

Height of Base: 62 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90-92/93 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: metal staples still implanted in the rim of the bowl; large chunks of stone have been been broken off from the rim.

REFERENCES

Inventario artístico de Soria y su provincia, Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 1989

Soria románica: el arte románico en la diócesis de Osma-Soria: catálogo de la exposición, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - CER, 2001

Burgo de Osma, Ciudad de Seis Pisos, Burgo de Osma: Las Edades del Hombre, 1997

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992

Enríquez de Salamanca, Cayetano, Rutas del románico en la provincia de Soria, Madrid: [El Autor], 1986

García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 323, 330, 337, 338, 339, 340, 354

García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995

Gaya Nuño, Juan Antonio, Románico en la provincia de Soria, Madrid: CSIC, 1946

Morales Hernández, Fernando, Garray, Soria: Delegación Territorial de Cultura, 1985

Múñiz López, Iván, "La pila bautismal de tradición prerrománica de Castrillón (Asturias): el control señorial del bautismo", 2 (2007), Territorio, sociedad y poder, 2007, pp. 265-274; p. 271

Quiñones Costa, Ana María, "Ermita de los Mártires de Garray", Celtiberia, 1983, pp. 230; p. 239

Ramón y Fernández, José, "Algunas pilas románicas sorianas", Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología, 1945-46, pp. 91; p. 91

Taracena, Blas, Guía artística de Soria y su provincia, 1973