Traspena de la Pena / Traspeña de la Peña
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Results: 7 records
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand - beaded-tape - floral motif
Scene Description: with small floral and foliage motifs inscribed in the loops of the interlace
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pórtico gótico esculpido de la Iglesia de La Transfiguración en Traspeña de la Peña (Palencia, Castilla y León)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Valdavia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_La_Transfiguración_Traspeña_de_la_Peña_002.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pórtico gótico esculpido de la Iglesia de La Transfiguración en Traspeña de la Peña (Palencia, Castilla y León)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Valdavia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_La_Transfiguración_Traspeña_de_la_Peña_002.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Valdavia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_La_Transfiguración_Traspeña_de_la_Peña_001.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - foliage - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02172TRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-06-02
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de la Transfiguración
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche, N side wall
Church Patron Saint(s): The Transfiguration of Christ
Church Address: calle Abajo 5, 34859 Traspeña de la Peña, Palencia, Spain
Site Location: Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the PP-2249, in the municipality of Castrejón de la Peña, and 3 km N of it, in the N area of the province
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia
Historical Region: Comarca de la Montaña Palentina
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described in Bilbao (1996) and García Guinea (1998) as a Romanesque font. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008). Baptismal font consisting of a cauldron-shaped basin ornamented with a band of beaded-tape braid which contains balls and flowers in its central spaces;there is no stem; the round-to-square base has a thick moulding atop, and foliage motifs at the angles. On-site notes: the font appears raised on a plinth, also square; there is no cover present, and there are no iron staples visible in the upper rim. Like in the church itself, some traces of Romanesque characteristics remain on he font, but the latter is probably of the same period as the earlier parts of the Gothic building, the 13th century, although Arteguias [http://www.arteguias.com/monumentos/traspenadelapena.htm] [accessed 1 February 2018] mentions that the Gothic church had probably been built on the site of an earlier smaller Romanesque church [="Levantada probablemente sobre un modesto templo románico anterior"].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 368928 4741826
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (fine-grained, local quarry)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm
Notes on Measurements: Bilbao (1996: 307) & García Guinea (1998: 370)
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 68, 307
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998, p. 370
- Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008, p. 187