Villanueva de Pisuerga / Villanueva del Río Pisuerga
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sancho Campo, 2002
Image Source: colour photograph in Sancho Campo (2002)
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BU01: design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: all around, forming blind quadrangular divisions
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Image Source: colour photograph in Sancho Campo (2002)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sancho Campo, 2002
Image Source: colour photograph in Sancho Campo (2002)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 01253VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Diocesano de Palencia (Palencia, Spain)
Church/Chapel: [see museum information]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] C. Mayor Antigua, 22, 34005 Palencia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 979 70 69 13
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Villanueva de Pisuerga -aka Villanueva del río Pisuerga- is now covered by the waters of the Aguilar de Campoo dam
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) and in García Guinea (1998). Described and illustrated in Sancho Campo (2002) as a monolithic [includes the lower base] Romanesque font of the 13th century. The upper side of the basin has an arcade with double arches all around; the lower side of the basin is ornamented with vertical mouldings; crude circular lower base. [NB: according to García Guinea (ibid.) and Sancho Campo (ibid.) the font is originally from Villanueva de Pisuerga, a village later covered by the waters of the Aguilar de Campoo dam -- the font is now [2002] in the Museo Diocesano de Palencia]. Noted and illustrated in Martín Jiménez (2008).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.0129, -4.539503
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 0′ 46.44″ N, 4° 32′ 22.21″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 96 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm *[85 cm]
Notes on Measurements: Bilbao (1996: 305) and García Guinea (1998: 378) -- *[Sancho Campo (2002: 110)]
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, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998
Jenkins, Simon, Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles, London: Allen Lane, 2008
Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002