Wamba No. 1 / Gérticos
Results: 13 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing the damage and some repairs on its side [in 2012]
view of font and cover
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: notice the diagonal through crack at the bottom
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the only ornamentation on this font
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of font and cover in context
![the side of the font has been repaired [2015]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150805011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the side of the font has been repaired [2015]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of church exterior - charnelhouse, ossuary
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of church interior - aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 5 August 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05737WAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de Santa María
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: The church is chiefly 12thC but has a Mozarabic 'santuario' of the 10thC -- church photos in Paula's [www.flickriver.com/photos/paulayjesus/sets/72157622375470157/] [accessed 6 September 2013]
Church Address: Calle La Iglesia 1, 47190 Wamba, Valladolid
Site Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km W of Valladolid capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valladolid
Historical Region: Comarca de los Montes Torozos
Additional Comments: disused font? (damaged font -- repaired)
Font Notes:
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An article in El Pais (Oct. 6, 2001), travel section, by Pedro Altares, informs that the Mozarabic church of Santa María de Wamba still has a baptismal font in the same style. [NB: this is probably a reference to the stoup; another stoup that exists in the same church, but it is not listed in Martín González inventory of 1970]. The baptismal font here is probably from the Romanesque period of the church, the 12th century; it consists of a large roughly hemispherical basin, plain except for a single moulding at the upper rim; raised on a squat base of truncated-cone shape. The wooden cover is hinged at its middle; appears modern. The basin is badly damaged, with a very large crack with missing stone on the side [NB: this damage is documented in photographs as late as September 2013, but it no loger appears on photographs of May 2015]. The font appeared disused but has a modern wooden font cover hinged in the centre [cf. Index entries for Wamba No. 2 and 3 for the stoups noted above].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of www.arteguias.com, for his photographs of this church, and to Cristina Sanchez de Gijon for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 340494 4615744
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.6775, -4.9163
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 40′ 39″ N, 4° 54′ 58.68″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Martín González, Juan José, Inventario artístico de Valladolid y su provincia, Valladolid: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Comisaría del Patrimonio Artístico Nacional, 1970, p. 359