Itero Seco / Itero de la Vega?

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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

animal - mammal - bovine - head - floating head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - beaded-tape

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - zigzag

human figure - head - floating head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

sacrament - baptism

Scene Description: a man is inside a font being baptized; another waits his turn

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek - fleurdelisée?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

symbol - moon - crescent

Scene Description: Inverted crescent moon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 June 1999 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02147ITE

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: 34477 Itero Seco, Palencia, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Loma de Ucieza, and about 2 km from it

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Historical Region: Vega-Valdavia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, N side, near the altar [orig. from the now disappeared church]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described, illustrated and studied in Bilbao (various, chiefly 1995,1996). Bilbao (1996) notes the presence on this font of a scene of baptism of adults, which, Bilbao states, appears only on one other Castillian font, the one at nearby Osornillo [cf. Index entry]. Described and illustrated in García Guinea (1998). Baptismal font consisting of an irregular bucket-shaped basin crudely executed but with interesting decoration: a man, naked but for a short piece of linen waits, with arms crossed at chest level, by the side of a large baptismal font; inside that font another man is being baptised by a tonsured priest carrying a book in his hand; another figure covered in a mantle stands by with a book in his hand; a fleurdelisée cross, a large flower and an inverted crescent Moon appear on the sides as well. The base is decorated with beaded-tape and zig-zag motifs. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 372037 4702148

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 16-18 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 76-77 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 110-111 cm

Basin Depth: 34 cm

Basin Total Height: 52 cm

Height of Base: 25 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 77 cm* / 83 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 303) and García Guinea (1998: 392)]

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La representación del bautismo de los adultos en la pilas románicas de Itero Seco y Osornillo (Palencia)", 67 (1996), PITTM, 1996, pp. 79-[888; r["References"]

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "Una iconografía románica insólita. La escena del "bautismo de sangre" de la pila bautismal de Valcobero (Palencia)", IV (1995), A. III. CHP, 1995, pp. 469-477.

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, 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

Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002