Cuesta / La Cuesta
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Results: 14 records
Apostle or saint - Apostles - 4
Scene Description: the figures are arranged with the Apostles on their sides, head-to-foot, along the side of the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Eugenio Chicharro, 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: much damaged and erased now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photograph taken 28 May 1999 by BSI
design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Eugenio Chicharro, 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)
human figure - head - 10
Scene Description: most are badly damaged [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 28 May 1999 by BSI
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: one of the figures of the Apostles [greyscale version, digitally rotated and enhanced]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Eugenio Chicharro, 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)
view of basin - side
Scene Description: showing part of the figural decoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eugenio Chicharro Gutiérrez, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Eugenio Chicharro, 2008
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (e-mail of 3 April 2008)
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the only remaining staple of the old cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Paula Guillot
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2015)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Joaquín Díaz, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph in Colección: Fundación Joaquín Díaz / Cayetano Enríquez [www.funjdiaz.net/basefotos/alta/sg0012.jpg] [accessed 134 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Joaquín Díaz, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph in Colección: Fundación Joaquín Díaz / Cayetano Enríquez [www.funjdiaz.net/basefotos/alta/sg0120.jpg] [accessed 134 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: capital, east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borjaanimal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2011 by Borjaanimal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Cuesta_-_Iglesia_de_San_Cristobal_(Capitel).jpg] [accessed 14 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Borjaanimal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2011 by Borjaanimal [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Cuesta_-_Iglesia_de_San_Cristobal_(Vista_Exterior).jpg] [accessed 14 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Joaquín Díaz, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph in Colección: Fundación Joaquín Díaz / Cayetano Enríquez [www.funjdiaz.net/basefotos/alta/sg0121.jpg] [accessed 134 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Scene Description: the baptismal font at nearby Caballar, likely by the same artist or workshop as the font at La Cuesta
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com/imagenes5/pilabautismalcaballar.jpg] [accessed 14 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: photograph taken 28 May 1999 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02204CUE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cristóbal
Church Patron Saints: St. James or St. Christopher
Church Location: 40181 La Cuesta, Segovia, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Segovia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located about 45 kms ENE of Garray, in the municipality of Turégano, just S of the Sierra de Achena
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Segovia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: general shape same as Caballar and Turegano
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Eugenio Chicharro, of Sebulcor, Segovia, Spain, to David de la Garma Ramírez, of www.arteguias.com, and to Paula Guillot, for their photographs of this font
Listed as "reseñable" [=worthy of note] without further details in Garma Ramirez (19989). The basin sides of this Romanesque font are decorated with large ribs and a band with heads and reclining figures alternatively (Santamaria, 1988). On-site notes: four hieratic figures [the four Evangelists? / four Apostles?] laid on their sides around the upper side of the bowl; in addition, there are ten heads, very damaged around the back side; the squat cylindrical base has foliage (?) on the sides. The fonts at nearby Caballar and Turégano are similar, though not identical, and may be by the same artisan or workshop.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 16-18 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 106-108 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 139-140 cm
Basin Depth: 55 cm
Basin Total Height: 70 cm
Height of Base: 20 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, very crude; probably modern
REFERENCES
Garma Ramírez, David de la, Rutas del románico en la provincia de Segovia, Valladolid: Castilla Ediciones, 1998
Santamaría, Juan Manuel, Segovia románica, Segovia: Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Segovia, 1988