Arenillas de Nuno Perez / Arenillas de Nuño Pérez / Villanuño de Valdavia / Villanuno
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Results: 11 records
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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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
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design element - motifs - floral
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100319027_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: around the inner circumference of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
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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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human figure - warrior - dragon - fighting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
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view of basin
Scene Description: beasts fighting on the left; warrior and dragon fight on the right
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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 - detail
Scene Description: the head of the warrior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2009
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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 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 font
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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INFORMATION
FontID: 02134ARE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquail de San Cristóbal
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: C. la Iglesia, 15, 34477 Arenillas de Nuño Pérez, Palencia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located about 11 km NW of Osorno, near Villanuño de Valdavia, 25 km NW of Carrión de los Condes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century / 15th century, Romanesque? / Gothic?
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
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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.516667, -4.532222
Church 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 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
Burgo de Osma, Ciudad de Seis Pisos, Burgo de Osma: Las Edades del Hombre, 1997
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. Accessed: 2025-02-19 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998
Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980
Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008