Aldealengua de Pedraza

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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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B02: design element - motifs - arris

Scene Description: between the broad ribs, attached to the human heads above

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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BBU01: human figure - head

Scene Description: one in each of the 'spandrels' formed by the upper ends of the ribs

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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LB02: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the short stem, all around

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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LB03: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: this outer moulding is plain

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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R02: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: this inner moulding is carved with a rope motif; notice also the two old metal staples of the cover at opposite ends of the rim

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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view of font

Scene Description: part of the flat wooden cover visible on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02208ALD

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Aldealengua de Pedraza, Segovia, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Segovia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (S) road N-110, between Navafria and Gallegos, 37 km from Segovia capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of www.arteguias.com, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed by Garma Ramírez (1998) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Listed also as a Romanesque font in Santamaria (1988). Large roughly hemispherical basin with a pattern of broad ribs all around; in the spandrels formed by the rib upper ends, are human heads, most of which are too damaged for identification; these heads are not attached to bodies proper, but they have arris-like prolongations between the ribs below; the short stem is round and carved with a lovely foliage pattern between a rope moulding at the top, and the mouldings below. The upper rim has two metal staples at opposite ends; the inner rim is carved in a rope motif all around, but the outer one is plain. The wooden cover is flat and plain; modern..

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.06444, -3.80611

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 3′ 52″ N, 3° 48′ 22″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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