Arenillas de Nuno Perez / Arenillas de Nuño Pérez / Villanuño de Valdavia / Villanuno
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/palencia_ARENILLAS_DE_NUÑO_PÉREZ.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
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view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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view of basin
Scene Description: beasts fighting on the left; warrior and dragon fight on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2025
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/palencia_ARENILLAS_DE_NUÑO_PÉREZ.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: around the inner circumference of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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human figure - warrior - dragon - fighting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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animal - mammal - lion - fighting - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of San Cristóbal in Arenillas de Nuño Pérez (Palencia, Castile and León)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 January 2011 by Valdavia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arenillas_de_Nuño_Pérez_Church_of_San_Cristóbal_001.jpg?uselang=es] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the head of the warrior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Romanesque_baptismal_fonts_in_Spain] [accessed 19 March 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02134ARE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century / 15th century, Romanesque? / Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquail de San Cristóbal
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Christopher
Church Address: C. la Iglesia, 15, 34477 Arenillas de Nuño Pérez, Palencia, Spain
Site Location: Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 11 km NW of Osorno, near Villanuño de Valdavia, 25 km NW of Carrión de los Condes
Font Notes:
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The Inventario Artístico de Palencia (1977- ) has it as a Gothic font of the 15th century, but the description in Bilbao (1996) and the dating in García Guinea (1998), late 12th or early 13th century, give credence to its Romanesque pedigree: two scenes appear on the sides of the basin: the first shows two lions in a belicose embrace; in the second scene a bearded warrior armed with a short sword or dagger, protected with a large shield and a helmet, has the winning hand in his fight with a coiled-tail dragon, both framed at the top by irregular round arches; the rim has rope motif ornamentation and, on the upper surface, little florettes spaced all around between the outer rope moulding and the inner moulding; on the same surface are traces of the metal staples of the old cover. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008) with date in the late 12th century. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/palencia_ARENILLAS_DE_NUÑO_PÉREZ.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.516667, -4.532222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 31′ 0″ N, 4° 31′ 56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 129 cm*
Height of Base: N/
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Bilbao (1996: 301) and García Guinea (1998: 391)]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 38, 67, 112 fn150, 126, 235-239, 263, 301
- Burgo de Osma, Ciudad de Seis Pisos, Burgo de Osma: Las Edades del Hombre, 1997
- Fajardo Yuste, María Dolores, "Pilas de bautismo románicas en la provincia de Palencia: estudio de seis nuevos ejemplares", 1996, pp. 479-492.
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998, p. 391
- Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980, vol. 2: 22 and pl. 7
- Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008, p. 122