Porquera de los Infantes / Porkera
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind
Scene Description: Five large arches and other smaller ones.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 December 2012 by Mª José, in Pueblos de España [http://www.pueblos-espana.org/fotos_originales/3/3/8/00788338.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: torus-scotia combination
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 December 2012 by Mª José, in Pueblos de España [http://www.pueblos-espana.org/fotos_originales/3/3/8/00788338.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernorio, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2005 by Bernorio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesiaporquera.JPG] [accessed 5 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 02160POR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de María de la O
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 34813 Porquera de los Infantes, Palencia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the N-611, near Aguilar de Campoo, 5 km NW of Pomar de Valdivia, to which muicipality it belongs, in the NE area of the province
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery [choir]
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Described in Bilbao (1996) and in García Guinea (1998): baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin is adorned with five large arches together with other smaller ones; the base has torus-scotia decoration. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008) and in JMRM, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León. Palencia, vol. I: 382. The font is similar in shape to the one in nearby Pomar de Valdivia, the latter without any decoration on the sides; this bucket-shape occurs often in the medieval fonts of the Palencia region.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 101 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 74 cm* / 72 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 305) and García Guinea (1998: 379) / ** JMRM, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León. Palencia, vol. I: 382
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, 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
