Bareyo
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02052BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-06-15
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Santa María
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entranceway, beneath the tower, now made up as a baptistry
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church probably late-12thC
Church Address: CP-39170, Bareyo, Cantabria, España
Site Location: Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain, Europe
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 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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 4813448 451781
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.472397, -3.596167
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 28′ 20.63″ N, 3° 35′ 46.2″ W
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 System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 967-973
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 113 fn155
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Cantabria, Santander: Ediciones de Librería Estvdio, 1996, p. 60, 101-103
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979, vol. 1, p.278-282; vol. 2. p. 69, 98-99
- Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978, p. 82
- Herrero Marcos, Jesús, Arquitectura y simbolismo del románico de Cantabria, Madrid: Ars Magna, 1996, [n/a]
- Karlsson, Lennart, "De gatfulla dopfuntsfragmenten i Sigtuna", LVIII, 4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1989, pp. 143-150, 10 ill.; p. 53-54 with ill.