Rioseco de Soria

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design element - architectural - arch

Scene Description: tall and thin arches with additional patterns and/or inserts

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design element - motifs - circle - concentric

Scene Description: seen here on the left, below the Greek cross

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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a hexagon - in a circle

Scene Description: one such seen here above the inscribed Greek cross

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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage

Scene Description: some may be meant to be Trees of Life

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: showing some damage here, on the upper left side

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design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: claw-like, very large and protruding, at 90-degree angles

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée - in a circle

Scene Description: the one here, on the upper left, has leaf-like inserts between the arms

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symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle

Scene Description: this side has a pair of them but another side has only one

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symbol - varied

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - apse - window

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: a room or chapel off the north side of the nave

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06910RIO
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 42193 Rioseco de Soria, Soria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the SO-P-4046, E of the N-122, 5 km SSW of Calatañazor
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Burgos
Historical Region: Almazán, Comarca de Soria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptisery, off the N side of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, the base decorated with motifs repeating some of those found on the basin sides: a potent cross, foliage, etc. Noted and illustrated in the municipality website [http://www.riosecodesoria.es/index.php/mod.pags/mem.detalle/id.37/relcategoria.1008/relmenu.39] [accessed 4 December 2009]: ["La Pila Bautismal presenta un basamento circular, sobre el que apoya un extraño pie de 43 cm. de altura decorado con una especie de pitones en las esquinas y entre ellos unas cruces patadas inscritas en círculos. A continuación, una moldura cilíndrica con doble fila de dentado da paso a una copa (86x54 cm.) decorada en su mitad inferior con gallones y en la superior con diversos motivos geométricos y vegetales (medallones que albergan cruces patadas y hexapétalas, semicírculos afrontados, bandas dentadas, aspas, hojas, etc.). La técnica en muy elemental, con una talla plana que se limita al vaciado de la líneas que forman los motivos dejando un relieve poco pronunciado de clara evocación prerrománica. Pese a ello, el resultado final es de un atractivo diseño que no encuentra paralelos cercanos en el románico de la provincia, la cronología de la pila bautismal es de finales del siglo XII." One source [http://www.soriahoy.com] describes the font as "perhaps Visigothic".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.642412, -2.840629
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 38′ 32.68″ N, 2° 50′ 26.26″ W
UTM: 30T 513272 4610087

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: round (mounted) - chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 86 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Height of Base: 43 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: *[http://www.riosecodesoria.es/index.php/mod.pags/mem.detalle/id.37/relcategoria.1008/relmenu.39] [accessed 4 December 2009]

REFERENCES

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