Fresno de Cantespino
Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image and permission received (e-mail 24/9/2003)
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 24/9/2003)
R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 24/9/2003)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 24/9/2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02210FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Nicolás
Font Location in Church: In the outside atrium
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: C. las Cercas, 2, 40516 Fresno de Cantespino, Segovia, Spain
Site Location: Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Fresno de Cantespino is N-E from Sepulveda, just E. of the N1 to Burgos and N. of the N610 to Soria.
Font Notes:
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Listed by Garma Ramírez (1998: 29) as "reseñable" [=noteworthy] baptismal font of ther Romanesque period. "Interesting piece with round arches which rest on slender columns"; the large, regular bowl has a noticeable rim under which start the arches whose supporting columns taper off to the narrow bottom; the short, stumpy base is round and only a few inches tall (description based on an ill. on Santamaria (1988: 61, 108 and pl. 113) [We are grateful to David de la Garma for the photograph of this font]
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.369444, -3.497222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 22′ 10″ N, 3° 29′ 50″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain and flat
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, p. 61, 108 and ill. on p. 113