San Martin de Elines No. 1 / San Martín de Elines

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: with hood-like extensions atop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Andrés Ortega

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Andrés Ortega

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design element - motifs - rope

Scene Description: incised in the upper surface of the rim

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Andrés Ortega

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 July 2009 by Andrés Ortega

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Image Source: digital photograph by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail)

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Scene Description: evidence of damage and repairs visible around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2013 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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Image Source: digital photograph 6 December 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 June 1999 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: notice the repairs done at oposite ends of the upper basin

Image Source: digital photograph 6 December 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

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Scene Description: one of several fonts preserved in the cloister at San Martin de Elines

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2013 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 02385QUI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Purísima Concepción

Church Patron Saints: The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary

Church Location: [NB: church address and coordinates given for the original location of the font] Barrio Quintanasolmo, 4, 39419 Quintanasolmo, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Quintanasolmo / Quintanas de Olmo is located off (N) the CA-274, in the municipality of Valderredible, 6 km WNW of Polientes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Santander province

Font Location in Church: moved to the cloister of San Martin de Elines

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com], to Andres Ortega, of www.romanicoennavarra.es, and to Mikel Unanue for their additional photographs of this font

Church Notes: Quintanasolmo [or Quintanas Olmo...] was built in the 13th century, originally a base for Benedictine monks from Cluny who were later replaced by Augustinian monks. The village was de-populated in the 1980s and the font moved to Elines for protection. [NB: recovery of the village reported ca. 2000, but the church still semi-abandoned and in ruinous state]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in Calderón Escalada (1971: p. between 40-41). On-site notes: one of several fonts gathered in the cloister of San Martín de Elines from abandoned villages of the area. This one, known to have been originally at Quintanasolmo, is a largish round basin in red sandstone; the sides are ornamented with a blind arcade (or shallow ribbing) and has a thin strip of rope motif near the upper rim. The base on which it now stands was probably not a part of this font at all. The earlier source [cf. supra] showed it mounted on a cylindrical pedestal adorned with two roll mouldings, raised on a circular plinth.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 419244 4742503

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)

Font Shape: round

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5-9.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 65-67 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48 cm*

Height of Base: 20 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Calderón Escalada, José, Campoo: panorama histórico y etnográfico de un valle, Santander: Institución Cultural de Cantabria, Diputación Provincial, 1971