Cembrero

Image copyright © Miguel Angel García Guinea, 1998

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Results: 6 records

LB01: design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: Ball-and-claw?

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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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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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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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"

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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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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]

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view of font

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]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

view of font

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

FontID: 02145CEM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Tirso
Church Patron Saints: St. Tirso
Church Location: Cembrero, 34407 Palencia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the P230, 5-6 km WSW of Calahorra de Boedo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.561389, -4.435833
Church 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
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, 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
Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008