Cembrero
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Results: 6 records
LB01: design element - motifs - ball - 4
Scene Description: Ball-and-claw?
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Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/palencia_CEMBRERO.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "en los pies del templo se dispone un coro alto de madera, bajo él, se halla la capilla bautismal [...] Su única decoración la constituye una tosca figura humana en bajorrelieve enmarcada en un a modo de nicho tallado en reserva. El personaje aparece con las manos en actitud orante y vestido con túnica de pliegues paralelos. Apoya la pila sobre una basa de tipología románica con bocel y bolas en sus esquinas"
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_CEMBRERO.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
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human figure - female?
Scene Description: Female figure (identified in Bilbao as the Virgin Mary) but the Enciclopedia entry rescribes it only as "tosca figura humana en bajorrelieve"
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_CEMBRERO.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "La portada se abre en el muro meridional y es obra de inicios del XIII."
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_CEMBRERO.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR
design element - motifs - roll moulding
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_CEMBRERO.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Angel García Guinea, 1998
Image Source: García Guinea (1998: 390)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02145CEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Tirso
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Tirso
Church Address: Cembrero, 34407 Palencia, Spain
Site Location: Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the P230, 5-6 km WSW of Calahorra de Boedo
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in García Guinea (1990) and (1998), where a dating of the 12th or 13th century is suggested for the font. Described and partially illustrated in Bilbao (1996). Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin is roughly bucket-shaped and is ornamented with a schematic female figure, identified as the Virgin (ibid.); the figure is portrayed full front and rigidly, both hands to her chest, inside a rectangular frame on one side of the basin; the lower base has ball-and-claw motif at each of the four angles. G-G (1998) suggests that the pleats of the robes appear somewhat reminiscent of those on the Moarves font [cf. Index entry for Moarves de Ojeda]. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008) with date at the end of the 12th century. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/palencia_CEMBRERO.pdf] [accessed 19 February 2025]: "Posiblemente por estos mismos [bien entrado el siglo XIII] años se labra la pila bautismal conservada en el interior. Es de pequeñas dimensiones (unos 79 cm de diámetro por 70 cm de altura) y copa troncocónica lisa. Su única decoración la constituye una tosca figura humana en bajorrelieve enmarcada en un a modo de nicho tallado en reserva. El personaje aparece con las manos en actitud orante y vestido con túnica de pliegues paralelos. Apoya la pila sobre una basa de tipología románica con bocel y bolas en sus esquinas."
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.561389, -4.435833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 33′ 41″ N, 4° 26′ 9″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm* / 79 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: Bilbao (1996: 302) and García Guinea (1998: 390) / ** Enciclopedia...
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 53, 63, 189-191, 264, 302
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Palencia, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, 1990, p. 78
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998, p. 390
- Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008, p. 122