Cardejon del Campo / Cardejón del Campo

INFORMATION

FontID: 06826CAR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Font Location in Church: Not in a church - it is reported used as a planter in the street
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as one of group of Romanesque fonts in Soria province kept in very poor conditions and in danger of total destruction; this particular one is serving as a planter outside. Reported by José Manuel Rodríguez Montañés in his "Edificios románicos amenazados o en ruinas en Castilla y León" [web.jet.es/cer/ruinas.htm] as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period now [ca. 2000] being used as a planter in the village street [NB: an image is shown -not known whether or not it corresponds to this font- showing a plain, well-executed tub-shaped basin ornamented with roll moulding at the upper rim; tha base is round at the neck/top and square with know or ball motifs at the lower end - it has a small tree planted in it]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
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; r["References"]