Villavega de Aguilar
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B01:
design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a circle
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B02:
design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: at least one of them is heaxapetaled
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02181VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: C. Real Vvag, 33, 34810 Villavega de Aguilar, Palencia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the C-220, just SE of Cillamayor, about 10 km NW of Aguilar de Campoo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Bilbao (1996) gives Revilla de Santullán and Brañosera as "sister fonts"
Church Notes: Single-nave Romanesque church (Martín González, ibid.)
Martín González (1977) identifies the font as Romanesque. Bilbao (1996) and García Guinea (1998) describe it as a polygonal basin ornamented with quatrefoils and a base shaped like a truncated pyramid. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008). The basin is really round, but the piping and moulding make it polygonal; there is no real base, but the underbowl is round, the shape of an inverted truncated cone. Most of the motifs are 4-petaled flowers, but at least one is a hexapetal one, also inscribed in a circle.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.85222,
-4.25833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 51′ 08″ N,
4° 15′ 30″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
Diameter (includes rim): 118.5 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm
Notes on Measurements: Bilbao (1996: 308)
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 González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980
Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008
