Valdegena / Valdegeña

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

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine

INFORMATION

FontID: 06837VAL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Lorenzo
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the N-122, 29 km from the town of Soria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Described by Huerta Huerta (2001) as as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period ornamented with a blind arcade of intersecting arches, a common ornamental motif in fonts of this area. Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a Romanesque font kept in precarious surroundings, and partly built into the wall; it is, like the font at Estepa de Tera, bucket-shaped and decorated with a vine and an arcade of intersecting round arches below.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Soria románica: el arte románico en la diócesis de Osma-Soria: catálogo de la exposición, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - CER, 2001
García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; r["References"]