Arevalo / Arévalo de la Sierra

Results: 4 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

B02: design element - motifs - X in a square or inscribed saltire?

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine

BS01: symbol - cross

INFORMATION

FontID: 06825ARE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Virgen de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the SO-P-1004, E of Almarza, NNE of Garray and Soria capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Font Notes:
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a baptismal font of the late-Romanesque period with a bucket-shapedl basin decorated with round arches. The website of the municipality [www.arevalodelasierra.es] [accessed 13 June 2010] describes the font as bucket-shaped, decorated with three registers on the sides: a vine at the top, an arcade of round arches in the middle, with crosses in the spandrels, and a saltires inscribed in rectangles below.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.95, -2.4
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 57′ 0″ N, 2° 24′ 0″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 337, 339