Sotillo del Rincon / Sotillo del Rincón
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns - double columns with capitals - decorated capitals
BS01: animal - bird
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
BS02: human figure
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 06907SOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Natividad.
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located of the SO-P-6114, 30 km from Soria capital
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Similar avian motifs are found on the font at Taroda; arcade and shape shared by the font at nearby Aldehuela del Rincón
Font Notes:
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Described by Rodríguez Montañés in Soria románica (2000) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the spandrels of the basin arcade are decorated with avian schematic representations. Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, a bucket-shaped basin decorated with a zig-zag or wavy line above a blind arcade of round arches on double columns with decorated capitals. García Gómez (ibid.) does not mention the animal shapes but includes a human figure among the details of this font.
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; p. 338, 355