Arenillas de San Pelayo
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
design element - motifs - floral - rosette - overlapping rings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
design element - patterns - groove - incised groove - double
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
symbol - cross - Greek - 2
Scene Description: at opposite sides of the basin; these crosses may have been carved later
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: the whole church has an uncommon orientation to the northeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of church interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: one of the two capitals on which the chancel arch rests
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of church interior - north aisle - looking east
![with the font in the north apse [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141020012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font in the north apse [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 June 1999 by BSI
view of font in context
![in the north apse [NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141020018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: in the north apse [NB: orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 19 October 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02135ARE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pelayo
Church Patron Saints: St. Pelayo [aka Paio / Payo]
Church Location: 34473 Arenillas de San Pelayo, Palencia, Spain -- Tel.: 979 895 015 [town hall]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located near the P230, just S of Renedo de Valdavia, 6 km N of Buenavista de Valdavia, 20 km E of Saldaña, 80 km N of Palencia capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia
Historical Region: Comarca de la Valdavia -- Castilla la Vieja
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the apse of the north nave
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Antonio Daban Royo and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: originally church of a monastery ca. 1132; passed on to the Premonstratensian Santa María de Retuerta in 1168; separated from Retuerta in 1846 when it became parish church; present church has a triple apse and three aisles. Detailed essay in LA GUÍA DIGITAL DEL ARTE ROMÁNICO [www.arquivoltas.com/8-palencia/02-ArenillasSP1.htm] [accessed 20 October 2014]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Sancho Campo (1971) as a Romanesque-Visigothic baptismal font ["románico-visigótica"]; the Visigothic component is, according to Sancho Campo (ibid.) emphasised in the nature of the base and in some of the motifs on the basin sides. In Martín González (1977-); in García Guinea (1990) and (1998), who shies away from the dating because it lacks any characteristic that might help to provide a reasonable clue [="de difícil cronología y con ninguna característica especial que pueda razonablemente fecharla"]; in (Bilbao, 1996). In Martín Jiménez (2008). On-site notes: the font consists of a bucket-shaped basin mounted on a quadrangular lower base; there are two grooves around the upper surface of the rim, as well as two metal staples from an old cover hardware; there is also dama to one side of the upper rim, with a small chunk of stone missing; the upper side of the basin side is ornamented with a band of rosettes; the lower side is ornamented with a band of interlace, like chain-link, although it appears to foliate in some parts; in between, two large incised Greek crosses [re-carved?]. The quadrangular lower base is slightly trapezoidal, plain except for a moulding at the arrises and may or may not be part of the original font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.579964, -4.592897
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 34′ 47.87″ N, 4° 35′ 34.43″ W
UTM: 30T 4715402 369283
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 11-12 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 77-78 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 100-102 cm
Basin Depth: 40 cm
Basin Total Height: 55 cm
Height of Base: (no base)
Font Height (with Plinth): 72-74 cm (plinth/lower base = 17 cm)
Notes on Measurements: BSI
REFERENCES
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 Palencia, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, 1990
García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998
Lojendio, L. M., Castilla/2, 1985
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
Sancho Campo, Angel, Arte sacro en Palencia, Palencia: Obispado de Palencia, Comisión Diocesana de Arte, 1971