Polientes
Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal
Scene Description: located right by the large damaged area below the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: notice the large damaged area at the top-left corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: appears to be part of the basin block
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: a pattern somewhere betenn a blind arcade and a ribbed pattern, very common in this period and area
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
design element - patterns - zigzag - parallel - 3
Scene Description: very irregular work
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: the present church is 18th-19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Viajar por Cantabria, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph in Viajar por Cantabria [www.viajarporcantabria.com/iglesia-parroquial-de-san-cristobal-en-polientes/] [accessed 26 February 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: located at the east end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07133POL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cristóbal de Polientes
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: Barrio Polientes, 115, 39220 Polientes, Cantabria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 942 77 60 44
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located off the CA-274, in the municipality of Valderredible, about 30 km E of Aguilar de Campoo, 112 km from Santander capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo - Los Valles / Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com] for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: present church 18th-19thC
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Calderón Escalada (1971: p. between 40-41) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, Stone font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin -very irregular in shape- ornamented with three parallel bands of zigzag motif on the side and a ribbed pattern on the underbowl; the stem of the base is a short and round, with a roll moulding at the upper end, though it appears to be part of the basin block; on a circular plinth. No cover present but there is damage to the upper rim that appears to have been caused by metal anchorings for an old cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.80626, -3.94147
UTM: 30T 423255 4739711
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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