Riaza, Santa Maria de Riaza / Santa María de Riaza
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view of font
Scene Description: side with the square arches or panels
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI
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view of font
Scene Description: side with the horseshoe arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission to reproduce (e-mail 24/9/2003)
human figure
Scene Description: only part of it remains: head in profile looking left, arms raised
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI
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design element - patterns - nested chevrons
Scene Description: rounded, like palmettes, but not uniformly everywhere
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horseshoe arches
Scene Description: several of them, sequential
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 May 1999 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the human head in the possible Eucharist scene
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Quique Segura, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2012 by Quique Segura
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 June 2016)
sacrament - eucharist?
Scene Description: is it a priest at the altar?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by Antonio Daban] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 June 2016)
unidentified
Scene Description: only a fragment at the very top, and a detail below looking like a fruit motif remain of whatever the decoration was in this panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by Antonio Daban] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 June 2016)
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2010 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PortadaDeLaIglesiaDeLaNatividadSantaMaríaDeAyllón-rectangular.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 May 2010 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SantaMaríaDeRiaza13.JPG] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by Antonio Daban] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 June 2016)
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Miracle of the Harvest
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Miracle of the Harvest
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Miracle of the Harvest
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Miracle of the Harvest
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Miracle of the Harvest
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Massacre of the Innocent
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Miracle of the Harvest -- detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Scene Description: Massacre of the Innocent
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2004 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Standing Permission
view of church interior - wooden panel - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2008 by David de la Garma Ramírez, Arteguias.com
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 June 2020)
view of font in context
Scene Description: fruit-like motif at the bottom, much klike the other two in the arch to the left; what is at the top?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Quique Segura, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2009 by Quique Segura
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 June 2016)
view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: notice the different columns used as partitions or frames for the panels; notice also the change in the pattern of the nested-chevron like motifs moving left from the column on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Quique Segura, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2009 by Quique Segura
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 June 2016)
view of church interior - nave - ceiling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by Antonio Daban] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 June 2016)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2014 by Antonio Daban] [accessed 17 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 June 2016)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01146RIA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-05-25
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque? / Visigothic? / Mozarabic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de la Natividad in Santa María de Riaza [aka Nuestra Señora de la Natividad]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the altar, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Notes: original church 13thC -- Painted wooden panels from the medieval ceiling hang on the walls in the apse. They appear to be dated to the 13th century. There is one scene of the "Miracle of the Harvest" following a depiction of Herod seated on a throne.-- photographs kindly supplied by David de la Garma @ Arteguias.com
Church Address: Plaza Mayor, 23, 40500 Riaza, Segovia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 921 55 01 66
Site Location: Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-110, in the municipality of [since 1970] and 2 km from Ayllón, 45 km SE of Aranda de Duero, 92 km from Segovia capital, 99 from Soria capital [the church key is kept at the parish church in nearby Ayllón]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Segovia
Historical Region: Nordeste de Segovia
Additional Comments: asked AdR to get me in touch with Quique Segura: could he send me his good large-res photos of the font?
Font Notes:
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Garma Ramírez (1998: 146) mentions it as being Visigothic or Mozarabic, cut from a single block of limestone and having some sort of arcade on it. Also in Santamaria (1988: 158). The Historia de la Diócesis [www.diocesiscastillayleon.org] as being of Mozarabic influence. On-site notes: a tub-like, cylindrical baptismal font, now raised on three (?) blocks that are probably modern; it has a moulding at the upper rim and a band of curved lines [like nested chevrons] imitating palmettes just below it; there are eleven arches, some square, others Mozarabic; there are remains of one figure standing on a high platform in one of the square arches; in the next arch or panel to the right there is also a fragment of whatever decorated it; in the last square arch/panel to the right, just before the pattern switches to Mozarabic arches, there appear to be a human figure at an altar; is it a rendering of the Eucharist? The metal staples of the lid are still in place at the upper rim. Quique Segura [www.amigosdelromanico.org/inventario/fichas/espana/segovia/santamariaderiaza_lanatividad.html] [accessed 17 June 2016] writes: "Parece que mucho se ha discutido sobre la pila de La Natividad. Algunos autores la datan en periodo mozárabe o incluso visigodo, pero otros no consideran que esté justificado atribuirle tanta antigüedad y la remiten a finales del siglo X o principios del XI. En cualquier caso es una pieza ciertamente arcaica y de tosca belleza. La copa tiene unas dimensiones de 112x78 cm y se decora de forma un tanto caótica. Toda la zona superior está recorrida por una moldura abocelada y por una especie de onda. Más abajo, el perímetro de la copa se divide en diez recuadros que acogen varios arcos de herradura, uno de ellos doblado hacia abajo formando un ocho, varias piñas, una cabecita humana, botones, bolas etc. Aunque la pila no tenía pie se le ha proporcionado uno moderno. El hecho de que la pila sea claramente mucho más antigua que el resto de la iglesia nos hace sospechar de la previa existencia en este mismo lugar de otro templo, aunque no me consta que se haya encontrado rastro alguno de él."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com], to Quique Segura and to Antonio Daban Royo, for their additional photographs of this church and font -- We are also grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of Arteguias.com, for his photographs of the painted wooden panels in this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 466018 4584863
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.414604, -3.40662
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 24′ 52.57″ N, 3° 24′ 23.83″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 11-12 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 89 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 111 cm
Basin Depth: 62 cm
Basin Total Height: 80 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Burgo de Osma, Ciudad de Seis Pisos, Burgo de Osma: Las Edades del Hombre, 1997, p. 241
- Garma Ramírez, David de la, Rutas del románico en la provincia de Segovia, Valladolid: Castilla Ediciones, 1998, p. 146