Covaleda

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.