Bareyo
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Results: 27 records
animal - mammal - lion - with prey - human
Scene Description: One of two lions that make up the base; this one chained, holding a human arm in its jaws
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
animal - mammal - lion - with prey - human
Scene Description: One of two lions that make up the base, holding a human arm in its jaws
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: Side A in Crozet
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - interlace - beaded-tape
Scene Description: Side D in Crozet
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: Side B in Crozet
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
design element - patterns - scalloped - acanthus leaves
Scene Description: Side C in Crozet
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
human figure - head
Scene Description: Between the two lions
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
view of base
Scene Description: side view of the male (?) lion; notice the bunch-of-grapes shape of the tail's end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of base
Scene Description: side view of the female (?) lion; notice the curled tail's end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin
Scene Description: reticular interlace pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin
Scene Description: link interlace pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2009 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [www.flickr.com/photos/17364971@N00/4236738444] [accessed 4 October 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of font
Scene Description: palmettes and interlace sides of the basin; lion's side on the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: palmettes and link interlace on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font
Scene Description: the palmettes side of the basin, and the front of the lions on the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
view of font - basin - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1966
Image Source: Drawing from Crozet (1966) in García Guinea (1996: 79) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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view of font - elevation - sides AB
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1966
Image Source: Drawing from Crozet (1966) in García Guinea (1996: 79) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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view of font - elevation - sides BC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1966
Image Source: Drawing from Crozet (1966) in García Guinea (1996: 79) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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view of font - elevation - sides CD
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1966
Image Source: Drawing from Crozet (1966) in García Guinea (1996: 79) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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view of font - elevation - sides DA
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1966
Image Source: Drawing from Crozet (1966) in García Guinea (1996: 79) -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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view of font - front side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 15 June 1999 by BSI
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital taken 10 April 2009 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 02052BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: CP-39170, Bareyo, Cantabria, España
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located just W of Santoña, about 40 kms E of Santander capital, in the municipality of Ajo and 1 km from it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entranceway, beneath the tower, now made up as a baptistry
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: church probably late-12thC
Font Notes:
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Stone font here described and illustrated in García Guinea (1979) and (1996) after Crozet's study of 1966 that dated it to the end of the 12th century [G-G reproduces most of Crozet's drawings of the font in his 1996 book]. Described as a Romanesque baptismal font with man-eating lions around the base in Guerra (1986 c1978: 82). On-site notes: beautiful font of the late 12th or early 13th century with some of the original (?) polychromy still on the sides of the short, wide and tetralobed basin; the base is made of two large lions. The inside of the basin has concave ribs, like fluting; on the outside, one side has a lovely intricate interlacing worthy of a Norman font, while the other is covered in large palmettes, all of it deeply carved on a turquoise-green painted background. The base is also wide and short and is made up of a pair of man-eating lions. The Bareyo church is one of the jewels of the Cantabrian Romanesque (Karlsson, 1989, p. 53-54 with ill.) There are two other Romanesque baptismal fonts of such quality and importance in the area, those at Santoña and Santillana del Mar. [NB: if the concave pattern of the inner basin here is original, and not a later modification, the dating of this font may need to be moved forward towards the 13th and even 14th period, despite the outer carvings]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.472397, -3.596167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 28′ 20.63″ N, 3° 35′ 46.2″ W
UTM: 30T 4813448 451781
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil [with concave ribbed pattern]
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 12-14 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 95-110 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 138 cm*
Basin Depth: 45 cm
Basin Total Height: 48 cm
Height of Base: 56 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 129 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 94-114 cm (inside dimen.) and 120-138 cm (outside)
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site *[minimum measurement of the inside diameter of the basin is 95 cm; maximum diameter of the outside is 138 cm (additional measurements courtesy of Mikel Unanue)]
REFERENCES
Mélanges offerts a René-Crozet, 1966
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, El Románico en Cantabria, Santander: Ediciones de Librería Estvdio, 1996
García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979
Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978
Herrero Marcos, Jesús, Arquitectura y simbolismo del románico de Cantabria, Madrid: Ars Magna, 1996
Karlsson, Lennart, "De gatfulla dopfuntsfragmenten i Sigtuna", LVIII, 4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1989, pp. 143-150, 10 ill.; p. 53-54 with ill.