Zorita del Paramo No. 1 / Zorita del Páramo
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view of font - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of object
Scene Description: origin or function unknown
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design element - motifs - interlace - linked rings - beaded-tape - floral or foliage motifs - cross-shaped
Scene Description: beautiful intricate patterns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand - beaded-tape - inscribed motifs
Scene Description: fine workmanship: there are beaded rectangles inside the loops of the braid, and larger beads in its spandrels -- a large chip of stone has broken off the upper rim, probably caused by the expansion of the metal staple of the old cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
Scene Description: used as a sort of lapidarium now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: in 16th-century 'plateresco' style
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gesu, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2008 by Gesu [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Zórita_del_Páramo_(Palencia)._Iglesia_de_San_Lorenzo._Portada_occidental.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valdavia, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2010 by Valdavia [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Iglesia_de_San_Lorenzo_001_Zorita_del_Páramo.jpg] [accessed 27 December 2014]
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view of church interior
Scene Description: a basin-like object in an alcove of the church
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view of font in context
Scene Description: inside the 'baptistery'
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church interior - baptistery
Scene Description: an alcove in the north wall of the nave
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail
Scene Description: one of the two large capitals of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: a holy-water stoup is visible in the foregroud, by the south entranceway; on the opposite side of the nave, in the north wall, opens a large alcove that contains the main baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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view of church interior - transept - ceiling
Scene Description: the painted vault of the crossing with remains of 15th-century painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
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design element - patterns - reticular
Scene Description: made up of tightly linked circles, akin to a chain-mail pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02183ZOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: San Andres de Arroyo workshop (?)
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Lorenzo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove or chapel on the N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the P-233, in the municipality of Páramo de Boedo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia
Historical Region: Comarca de Boedo-Ojeda
Additional Comments: damaged font: upper rim
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in the listed in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/palencia_ZORITA_DEL_PÁRAMO.pdf] [accessed 27 September 2025]: "La pila bautismal, instalada en una capilla cuadrangular del lado septentrional que se cubre con una bovedilla rebajada, es tardorrománica, de 130 cm de diámetro × 92 cm de altura. Tiene forma semiesférica [cf. infra] invertida y posee un refinado registro superior con delicados entrelazos
entre vástagos serpenteantes de sabor islamizante." Described and illustrated in García Guinea (1990) and (1998). Described in Bilbao (1996). Baptismal font of ther Romanesque period; G-G (ibid.) suggests a late 12th-century dating and a similarity with the work of the workshop at San Andrés de Arroyo; the upper part of the basin is ornamented with interlace; the centre part has fine vegetal braiding and palmettes forming cross shapes; the base is round and decorated with reticular pattern. Described in Martín Jiménez (2008). One metal staple from the old font cover remaining in the upper rim; where the other one was there is damage to the rim now. The font is mounted on a round decorated lower base, and a two-step circular plinth. The intricate carved ornamentation on this font is of the highest-quality workmanship. There is an object resembling a font basin in another alcove of this church; it appears to have been built into the wall; it has a rope moulding at the upper rim and a ribbed apttern below; not medieval; rather modern; function unknown. [cf. Index entry for Zorita del Paramo No. 2 for holy-water stoup listed in this church]
entre vástagos serpenteantes de sabor islamizante." Described and illustrated in García Guinea (1990) and (1998). Described in Bilbao (1996). Baptismal font of ther Romanesque period; G-G (ibid.) suggests a late 12th-century dating and a similarity with the work of the workshop at San Andrés de Arroyo; the upper part of the basin is ornamented with interlace; the centre part has fine vegetal braiding and palmettes forming cross shapes; the base is round and decorated with reticular pattern. Described in Martín Jiménez (2008). One metal staple from the old font cover remaining in the upper rim; where the other one was there is damage to the rim now. The font is mounted on a round decorated lower base, and a two-step circular plinth. The intricate carved ornamentation on this font is of the highest-quality workmanship. There is an object resembling a font basin in another alcove of this church; it appears to have been built into the wall; it has a rope moulding at the upper rim and a ribbed apttern below; not medieval; rather modern; function unknown. [cf. Index entry for Zorita del Paramo No. 2 for holy-water stoup listed in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and Antonio Daban Royo, Amigos del Románico, for their photographs of this church and font. We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 4717601 388619
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.6028, -4.35778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 36′ 10.08″ N, 4° 21′ 28.01″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: bucket-shape
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 129 cm* / 130 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm* / 92 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 308) and García Guinea (1998: 388) / ** Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 68, 308
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Palencia, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, 1990, p. 76, ill. on p. 237
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998, p. 388
- Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008, p. 123
- 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, p. 84