Sacramenia No. 1

Results: 32 records

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angel - holding soul

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: in most of the spaces left by the rest of the decorative motifs, including the cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - in a circle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - bead, circle or dot

Scene Description: the beads are located in the in the upper and lower spandrels created by the vine -- notice the damage to the upper rim, to the left of the angel's head; probably damage caused by a metal anchoring form on old font cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: in some of the semi-circles above the floral and cross motifs

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all around the basin interior

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

human figure - female - head - wearing headdress

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

human figure - female - head - wearing wimple

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: is it even human-like or animal-like?

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

human figure - head

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

human figure - head - 13

Scene Description: The thirteen heads in the upper spandrels of the ribbing around the bowl are a combination of male and female human heads and at least one that is not quite human; no indication of social or ecclesiastical status; some badly damaged

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: a square niche has been carved below some of the heads

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle

Scene Description: three of the arms are those of a Maltese cross, but the left arm appears to have undergone a not very successful 'floriated' treatment [or, is just damage?]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2010 by Nicolás Pérez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacramenia_iglesia_San_Martin_abside_ni.jpg] [accessed 15 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2013 by Nicolás Pérez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacramenia_iglesia_San_San_Matin_retablo_ni.jpg] [accessed 15 August 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: the flooring in 2009, after the renovation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2009 by Senen Bajo Gutierrez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: showing five of the spandrel heads to the right of the angel figure

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: notice the 'head' in the second-from-the-right spandrel

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: notice the 'head' in the second-from-the-left spandrel

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: the flooring around the base of the font was re-done later and the gap covered

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1999 by BSI

view of font base

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font in context

Scene Description: on the left are the stairs leading up to the west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 August 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02335SAC

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Plaza Pública, S/N, 40237 Sacramenia, Segovia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 921 52 70 28

Country Name: Spain

Location: Segovia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located just S of Cuevas de Provanco, to the N-E of Fuentidueña

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Segovia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the gallery stairs

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta and to Senen Bajo Gutierrez for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed as a Romanesque baptismal font in Santamaria (1988). On-site examination revealed the base is ornamented with circular motifs in which either a Maltese cross or four-petaled flower is inscribed; this band encircles the base; thirteen small faces in the spandrels of large ribs around the bowl; the faces are both male and female; a wide border of an acanthus vine encircles the top of the bowl; the inner well is carved with a concave rib pattern; metal staples evident in the rim. The font is in the Romanesque style of Castillian design, but the presence of the angel throws the date forward [unless it is a later addition, though it appears to be part of the original block].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 420710 4594700

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two (part of base is included with bowl and bottom part of base twond piece)

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round (concave ribbing)

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 11-12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 97 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 117-120 cm*

Basin Depth: 50 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Height of Base: 50 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Santamaría, Juan Manuel, Segovia románica, Segovia: Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Segovia, 1988