Wamba No. 1 / Gérticos

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the only ornamentation on this font

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: notice the diagonal through crack at the bottom

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 exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the damage and some repairs on its side [in 2012]

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
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view of font and cover in context

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 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)

INFORMATION

FontID: 05737WAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Calle La Iglesia 1, 47190 Wamba, Valladolid
Country Name: Spain
Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located 15-20 km W of Valladolid capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valladolid
Historical Region: Comarca de los Montes Torozos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
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
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]
Font Notes:
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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.6775, -4.9163
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 40′ 39″ N, 4° 54′ 58.68″ W
UTM: 30T 340494 4615744

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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