Villasevil in Santiurde de Toranzo
Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
Results: 17 records
design element - motifs - palmette
![As Garcia Guinea (1979: 297) and (1996: 61) indicates, only one of the "scales", in the penultimate row from the bottom, has been completed and gives an idea of what the total ornamentation would have been. [cf. FontNotes].](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191117052_compressed.png)
Scene Description: As Garcia Guinea (1979: 297) and (1996: 61) indicates, only one of the "scales", in the penultimate row from the bottom, has been completed and gives an idea of what the total ornamentation would have been. [cf. FontNotes].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kike Lombardero, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 12 November 2019 by Kile Lombardero
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: The concave ribbing would suggest a Transitional or Gothic dating -- notice that the scalloped pattern is very irregular here, and unfinished in the top-right area.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
design element - patterns - scalloped - palmette
![As Garcia Guinea (1979: 297) and (1996: 61) indicates, only one of the "scales", in the penultimate row from the bottom, has been completed and gives an idea of what the total ornamentation would have been. [cf. FontNotes].](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191117055_compressed.png)
Scene Description: As Garcia Guinea (1979: 297) and (1996: 61) indicates, only one of the "scales", in the penultimate row from the bottom, has been completed and gives an idea of what the total ornamentation would have been. [cf. FontNotes].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of church exterior - apse - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of church exterior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kike Lombardero, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 12 November 2019 by Kile Lombardero
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of church exterior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Gómez Fontanills, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by David Gómez Fontanills [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lateral_Santa_Cecilia_Villasevil.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Gómez Fontanills, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by David Gómez Fontanills [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fachada_Santa_Cecilia_Villasevil.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church exterior - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kike Lombardero, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 12 November 2019 by Kile Lombardero
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of font
Scene Description: the large font is nonetheless overwhelmed by the sheer size of the massive three-step plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kike Lombardero, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 12 November 2019 by Kile Lombardero
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kike Lombardero, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 12 November 2019 by Kile Lombardero
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Macu Fernández, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Macu Fernández
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 10 November 2019 by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 November 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02055VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Cecilia
Church Patron Saints: St. Cecilia [aka Caecelia, Cecelia]
Church Location: Diseminado Villasevil, 8, 39698 Santiurde de Toranzo, Cantabria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located off the CA-602, E of the Pas river, in the municipality and N of Santiurde de Toranzo, about 16 kms SE of Torrelavega
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sánchez, Kile Lombardero and Macu Fernández for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: The church is B.I.C. (1978) [Bien de Interes Cultural]
Font Notes:
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A lovely font (Karlsson, 1989, p. 136). Very large (comparable to those of Bareyo and Santillana) basin shows a scalloped surface that is really an unfinished decoration of palmette motif. As Garcia Guinea (1979: 297) and (1996: 61) indicates, only one of the "scales", in the penultimate row from the bottom, has actually been completed and gives an idea of what the total ornamentation would have been. The basin is embeded in the ground so it is not possible to see if there was any other ornamentation or the state of that which lies underground. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) (ibid.) notes the similarity of the decorative scalloped pattern on the fonts at the Burgos font of Tablada del Rudrón wit those at Villasevil and Villanueva de la Nía, in Cantabria.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.252833, -3.936036
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 15′ 10.2″ N, 3° 56′ 9.73″ W
UTM: 30T 424019 4789317
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-
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
Karlsson, Lennart, "De gatfulla dopfuntsfragmenten i Sigtuna", LVIII, 4, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1989, pp. 143-150, 10 ill.; p. 136