Canales de la Sierra No. 1 / Canales de Suso

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - on double columns - torsade columns - 12

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2

Scene Description: showing a pair of drilled holes at opposite ends, as well as a loop staple on the left and another metal staple across on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

design element - motifs - sawtooth

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

information

Image Source: digital image of a form filled by Joaquín Ruiz Fernández, of Canales de la Sierra, Spain, for BSI

Copyright Instructions: received January 2000

view of church exterior - apse - window

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristobal_08.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristobal_02.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristobal_03.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristobal_04.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristobal_07.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2011 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristobal_06.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2005 by Pigmentoazul [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canales_de_la_Sierra_-_Ermita_de_San_Cristóbal_1008418.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2021]

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view of font

Scene Description: note the poor state of the floor around the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

view of font

Scene Description: the extensive damage to the upper rim is obvious here

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2021)

view of font - elevation, etc.

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Joaquín Ruiz Fernández, of Canales de la Sierra, Spain, for BSI

Copyright Instructions: received January 2000

INFORMATION

FontID: 02585CAN

Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Cristóbal [formerly a parish church of Canales de Suso

Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher

Church Location: 26326 Canales de la Sierra, La Rioja, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: La Rioja, La Rioja

Directions to Site: Located off the LR-113, just 5 km E of the border between La Rioja and Castilla, 35-40 km NE of Salas de los Infantes, 85 km SW of Logroño

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño

Historical Region: Comarca de Anguiano / Las 7 Villas / Logroño province

Font Location in Church: Inside the rural chapel, at the W end of the nave, N side, beneath the gallery/choir

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sierra de la Demanda workshop

Cognate Fonts: Similar to the font at nearby Ventrosa; somewhat akin to the fonts at Casajares de la Sierra (Burgos) and Garray (Soria)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joaquín Ruiz Fernández, of Canales de la Sierra, Spain, for his information on this font, and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: This rural chapel is said to have been the mid-12thC parish church of the town of Canales de Suso, as suggested in López de Silanes Valgañón (2000) -- excellent report on the ermita in Arteguias [https://www.arteguias.com/ermita/ermitasancristobalcanalessierra.htm] [accessed 19 Jan 2021]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in López de Silanes Valgañón (2000) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the second half of the 12th century. Described and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) notes that this font is of type, rather than a workshop, in the Sierra de la Demanda, and suggests similarities with the font at nearby Ventrosa, and the one at Cascajares de la Sierra, in Burgos province; Sáenz Rodríguez (ibid.) notes that, unlike the latter, this is a rustic work, and dates it, like the rural chapel itself, to the mid-12th century; it was repaired and restored in 1993. In the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a baptismal font of the mid-12th century, with possible design similariities to the fonts at Cascajares de la Sierra (Burgos) and Garray (Soria) [cf. Index entries for both]. It is a tub-shaped basin decorated at the upper rim with a broken moulding [or, is it ball motif?], a band of saw-tooth below, and a blind arcade of twelve round arches resting on double torsade columns. Described and illustrated in RIOJA MONUMENTAL [www.larioja.com]. Tub-shaped quasi-cylindrical baptismal font dated to the 12th century; sides adorned with a blind arcade above a rope motif; higher up, below the rim, a band of saw-tooth motif. Shows traces of having been burned. Noted and illustrated by José Manuel Tomé in Arteguias [https://www.arteguias.com/ermita/ermitasancristobalcanalessierra.htm] [accessed 19 Jan 2021]: "De especial interés es la pila bautismal románica que se encuentra en la esquina noroeste del templo. Es de tipo cubeta, con una cenefa con dientes de sierra en la parte superior y arcos de medio punto sobre parejas de columnas de fustes torsos."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 498003 4665444

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 13.5-14.5 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 109 cm* / 79 cm**

Basin Depth: 70 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 80 cm**

Basin Total Height: 80 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm* / 80 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Sáenz Rodríguez (2004 and the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) / ** measurements provided to BSI by Joaquín Ruiz Fernández of Canales de la Sierra, Spain [NB: the discrepancy in the outer diameter of the upper basin is too large; the correct measurement is probably the largest

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain wooden lid; modern

REFERENCES

Inventario del patrimonio artístico de España: Logroño y su provincia, Unknown: Unknown, [s.d.]

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en la Rioja, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008

García de Castro Valdés, César, Arqueología cristiana de la alta Edad Media en Asturias, Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1995

López de Silanes Valgañón, F. J. Ignacio, Rutas románicas en La Rioja, Madrid: Encuentro, 2000

Sáenz Rodríguez, Minerva, "Las pilas bautismales del arte románico en la Rioja", Arte medieval en la Rioja: prerrománico y románico. VIII Jornadas de arte y patrimonio regional, Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2004