Tenzuela
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B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - horseshoe?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fernando Sebastián Alvaro, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph by Fernando Sebastián Álvaro [wwww.conocetucomarca.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
BIS01: design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fernando Sebastián Alvaro, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph by Fernando Sebastián Álvaro [wwww.conocetucomarca.com]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02209TEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: 40180 Tenzuela, Segovia, Spain
Site Location: Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SG-V-2362, in the municipality of Pelayos del Arroyo
Font Notes:
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Noted in Santamaria (1988). In Garma Ramírez (1998) as noteworthy. This large bucket-shaped font has a blind arcade of very large horseshoe arches or windows around the outer sides, and the basin interior has a pattern of concave ribs; damage to the upper rim; stands on a wide circular base made of multiple stiones, and a very wide circular plinth.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Fernando Sebastián Álvaro (Esca), of wwww.conocetucomarca.com, and to David de la Garma Ramírez, of www.arteguias.com, for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.059674, -3.983862
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 3′ 34,8″ N, 3° 59′ 01,9″ OW
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: multi-foil (concave ribbing)
Basin Exterior Shape: bucket-shape
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
- Garma Ramírez, David de la, Rutas del románico en la provincia de Segovia, Valladolid: Castilla Ediciones, 1998, p. 29
- Santamaría, Juan Manuel, Segovia románica, Segovia: Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Segovia, 1988, ill. 10 on p. 197