Henestrosas de las Quintanillas / Las Henestrosas

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: a row of

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all around the sides of the inner well

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien

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symbol - cross - Latin - crosslet cross

Scene Description: a later addition? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the drain in the centre and the concave ribbed pattern -- notice the damage to the upper rim sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien

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view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph in David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com/valdeoleacantabria.htm] [accessed 13 April 2014]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph in David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com/valdeoleacantabria.htm] [accessed 13 April 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph in David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com/valdeoleacantabria.htm] [accessed 13 April 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoien

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07129HEN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María la Real

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 39418 Henestrosas de las Quintanillas, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Valdeolea, 7 km from Mataporquera, 100 km from Santander capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander

Historical Region: Valdeolea -- Santander province

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez, Txaro Irigoien, and to David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com], for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church here originally late-12th or early-13thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Calderón Escalada (1971) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Romanesque period. The font consists of an almost conical (inverted) basin decorated with a single roll moulding at the upper rim, and a series of round arch-heads around the lower end; a Latin cross incised on one of the sides is probably a later addition; the inner well of the basin has a pattern of concave ribs, which is probably an indication to a later date that assigned [cf. supra]; there are is a single metal staple remaining in the upper rim from an old cover; there is damage to the upper rim; the base is a short and plain cylindrical stem.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.872142, -4.195114

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 19.71″ N, 4° 11′ 42.41″ W

UTM: 30T 4747309 402386

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round (ribbed)

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Calderón Escalada, José, Campoo: panorama histórico y etnográfico de un valle, Santander: Institución Cultural de Cantabria, Diputación Provincial, 1971