Muro de Agreda

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06835MUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: !2th-century church has one of the few origianl iron-reinforced doors of the Romanesque period
Church Address: 42108 Muro, Soria, Spain
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N-122, in the municipality and 6 kmSW of Agreda, about 7 km N of Olvega, about 45 km E of Soria capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Font Notes:
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a Romanesque baptismal font decorated with just a rope moulding on the basin. Listed in the www.gumaro.com site with a holy-water stoup of the Romanesque period. The stoup is ornamented with rope moulding motif and rests on four chubby columns. [NB: not clear whether these two objects exist or they are one and the same]. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico mentions neither font nor stoup in it.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 584141 4631710
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.832808, -1.98667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 49′ 58.11″ N, 1° 59′ 12.01″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, 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; p. 328-329