Laguna de Negrillos No. 1
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animal - fabulous animal or monster
Scene Description: one such visible here, biting the head on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Nuño González, Románico Digital, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a 26 August 1997 photograph by Jaime Nuño González in Románico Digital [http://www.romanicodigital.com/documentos_web/cedar/imagenes/león/24234_01_014.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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animal - fish
Scene Description: a well-rendered fish visible here, on the left, between the two human heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Nuño González, Románico Digital, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a 26 August 1997 photograph by Jaime Nuño González in Románico Digital [www.romanicodigital.com/documentos_web/cedar/imagenes/león/thmb_300_24234_01_016.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Nuño González, Románico Digital, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a 26 August 1997 photograph by Jaime Nuño González in Románico Digital [www.romanicodigital.com/documentos_web/cedar/imagenes/león/thmb_300_24234_01_016.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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human figure - head - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Nuño González, Románico Digital, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a 26 August 1997 photograph by Jaime Nuño González in Románico Digital [www.romanicodigital.com/documentos_web/cedar/imagenes/león/thmb_300_24234_01_016.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adolfobrigido, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 October 2016 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Laguna_de_Negrillos_04.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - west porch and portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adolfobrigido, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2016 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Laguna_de_Negrillos_05.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adolfobrigido, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2016 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Laguna_de_Negrillos_09.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal - archivolt
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adolfobrigido, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2016 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Laguna_de_Negrillos_08.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: only the lower base is original
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Nuño González, Románico Digital, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a 26 August 1997 photograph by Jaime Nuño González in Románico Digital [http://www.romanicodigital.com/documentos_web/cedar/imagenes/león/24234_01_014.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02276LAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 24234 Laguna de Negrillos, León, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: León, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of roads LE-411 - LE-7514 - LE-7515, across from the town hall, in the medieval centre of town
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de León
Historical Region: Páramo Leonés
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: Laguna de Negrillos first documented 1188 as “eclesiam de Lacuna de Negrillis” belonging to Astorga; present church 15th-16thC
Font Notes:
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Gomez-Moreno (1979) notes that only the base remains of the baptismal font here; it is dated to the 12th-13th century, and ornamented with heads and monsters that bite them; other animals at the angles (corners?). The heads at the corners are human, framed in foliage; some of the animals on the sides are monster-like, but at least one of them is a perfectly respectable fish. The font must have been restored at some point after that publication, as it now sports a new hemispherical basin with concave ribbed pattern on it. No cover present. An uncorroborated source mentions a round holy-water stoup here decorated with a face on its front.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.239014, -5.660908
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 14′ 20.45″ N, 5° 39′ 39.27″ W
UTM: 30T 280449 4679743
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: [missing; later replaced with a modern hemispherical one]
REFERENCES
Gómez-Moreno, Manuel, Catálogo monumental de España: Provincia de León, León: Ed. Nebrija, 1979