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design element - motifs - garland - acanthus
Scene Description: beaded tape main tendril, with fruit and rosettes
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - braid - 3-strand
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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design element - patterns - torsade
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - arches
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07081COV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Quirico y Santa Julita de Covaleda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, now in the chancel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] & St. Julitta
Church Address: 42157, Av. de Juan Carlos I, 40, 42157 Covaleda, Soria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 975 37 01 64
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SO-850 on the N bank of the Duero river, 11 km NW of Salduero, about 40 km WNW of Soria capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Font Notes:
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Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period with very good decoration. Described in Rodríguez Montañés, in his "Panorama general del arte románico en Soria" [http://inicia.es/de/FSMLR/panorama.htm] as a baptismal font of the late Romanesque period. The baptismal font consists of a cylindrical basin with a hemispherical underbowl, raised on a base that has a short moulded stem and a narrow quadrangular lower base. The decoration consists of a stylised acanthus (?) garland in which the main tendril is decorated with beaded tape; there are little rosettes in some of the gaps of the garland; this main motif is framed between a roll moulding at the upper rim of the basin and a three-strand braid at the lower rim; the hemispherica; underbowl is decorated with broad and deep ribs; the stem of the base starts with a torsade, then there is a thin roll moulding which is followed down by a broader moulding decorated with tiny arches; the sides of the quadrangular lower base are decorated with an irregular shallow-cut blind arcade of round arches. The baptismal font is now [October 2004] on the step of the presbitery, obviously not the original location. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/soria_COVALEDA.pdf] [accessed 15 May 2025]: "La pila bautismal, de arenisca, con una altura total de 104 cm, puede encajar en una cronología románica. Formada por una copa de corto pie y vaso hemisférico, apoyada en basamento cuadrangular, muestra profusa decoración. El vaso, de 130 cm de diámetro, tiene aristas aboceladas en la embocadura y muestra ancha banda decorada con tallos sinuosos, perlados, de los que parten piñas, debajo de lo cual aparece una greca. La parte inferior se decora con gallones mientras que el basamento, ya independiente, muestra plinto decorado con arquillos y basa de doble toro –el inferior también con arquillos– y escocia, con corto fuste de gallones helicoidales. Reproduce un modelo que se repite en Alcubilla del Marqués, Duruelo de la Sierra, Cubilla y Rejas de Ucero, lugares todos bastante cercanos. Se inspira claramente en las decoraciones de época románica, aunque el modelo de vaso quizá corresponda ya a tiempos bastante avanzados, cuando menos bien entrado el siglo XIII."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 509812 4642627
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.935551, -2.881637
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 56′ 7.99″ N, 2° 52′ 53.89″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 130 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 329, 332