Olvega No. 1 / Olbega
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2009 by Miguel Respenda [http://www.flickr.com/photos/respenda/3501198322/in/set-72157617596938095/] [accessed 3 December 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06809OLV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at Quintanillabón (Burgos) [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de San Marcos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mark
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church; modified and expanded 17thC; now a rural chapel but said to have been the parish or chapel-of-ease church of San Juan de Campiserrado
Church Address: Campiserrado, 42110 Olvega, Soria, Spain
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the CL-101, 45 km E of Soria capital. The ermita is located off the SO-P-2001 [formerly SO-V-3802] about 4 km from the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma–Soria
Additional Comments: disused font: appears to be used as a planter inside the church
Font Notes:
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The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) reports square fonts in Castilla-Leon at: Olvega and Gormaz (Soria prov.); Bustillo de Santullan and Villaverde de la Pena (Palencia prov.) Rosales, Quintanillabon, Grisalena, Dosante, Valluercanes, Castrovido, Cernegula, Santillan del Agua, , Bortedo, Llano de Bureba, Castil de Lences and Castrillo de Rio Pisuerga (Burgos prov.); last, but certainly not least, is the font of the Colegiata de San Isidoro in Leon capital. Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a font that is square on the outside but has a round inner basin well. A recent [May 2009] photograph by Miguel Respenda in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/respenda/3501198322/in/set-72157617596938095/] [accessed 3 December 2009]. NB: the holy-water stoup here is a re-cycled medieval corbel].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 585891 4624386
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (unounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-, vol. 11: 212
- García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 318, 327-328