Susilla
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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2021)
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph in ww.viajarporcantabria.com/iglesia-de-san-miguel-en-susilla/ [www.viajarporcantabria.com/iglesia-de-san-miguel-en-susilla/] [accessed 6 March 2021]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 24 May 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 March 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 02197SUS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Barrio Susilla, 28, 39419 Susilla, Cantabria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the CA-273, 2 km of Villanueva de la Nia, 16 km W of Polientes, in the municipality of Valderredible, 25-30 km E of Aguilar de Campoo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo - Los Valles / Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove
Century and Period: 16th century[altered?], Late Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com] for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: present church chiefly 16thC, modified 17th, 18th
Baptismal font noted in Garcia Guinea (1979) and García de Castro Valdés ([s.d.] 1998?). Baptismal font of stone and doubtful pedigree; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round-to-square base; the basin is decorated with a large encircled Greek cross and a pattern of diagonal fluting all around the sides, while the underbowl has concave ribbing all around; the base has a patterned roll moulding at the upper end, and vertical flotes or arches below with foliated morifs protruding at 90-degree angles on the moulded lower base. The font is either wholly from the 16th-century and later modifications and re-building of this church, or it was totally re-carved and modified at some point if it was originally from the medieval period. No cover present but there is evidence of metal anchorings of an earlier cover in the upper rim of the basin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.79978,
-4.07659
UTM: 30T 411913 4739199
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Santander, Santander: Librería Estudio, 1979
García de Castro Valdés, César, "Nuevas piezas de arqueología cristiana altomedieval en Asturias", 7 (2000), Revista de Arqueología del Área de Historia Medieval, 2000, pp. [201]-218; r["References"]
