Valverde in Valderredible

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B01: symbol - cross - in a circle?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Montserrat Estela in 2002 [www.romanicat.net]

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B02: design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: unfinished? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Montserrat Estela in 2002 [www.romanicat.net]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2012 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: photographed in 2002; later on [see ImageFileNo. 1210306033] a wooden roof was added to it to protect the interior from filtrations

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Montserrat Estela in 2002 [www.romanicat.net]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "exterior de la Ermita Rupestre Virgen de Valverde, en Valderredible, Cantabria. La ermita está labrada en la roca."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2008 by Dolmanrg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ermita_Rupestre_Virgen_de_Valverde.JPG] [accessed 6 March 2021]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: the font visible in the first arcade on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mikel Unanue in 2008

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view of font

Scene Description: side of the cross

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 July 2012 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Montserrat Estela in 2002 [www.romanicat.net]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Mikel Unanue in 2008

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/santa-maria-de-valverde] [accessed 6 March 2021]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/santa-maria-de-valverde] [accessed 6 March 2021]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/santa-maria-de-valverde] [accessed 6 March 2021]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2012 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 font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2012 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: 07225VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Rupestre Parroquial de Santa María [Santa María la Sotarraña?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: QVV5+6W, 39419 Santa María de Valverde, Cantabria, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Cantabria, Cantabria

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the CA-273, in the municipality of Valderredible, about 10 km E of Aguilar de Campoo, 25-30 km W of Polientes

Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo - Los Valles / Santander province

Font Location in Church: Inside the rock church, in the primitive apse

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], to Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez [www.cantabriaromanica.com], to Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net] and to Mikel Unanue, for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Berzosa (2005) dates this font to the 9th century or earlier. Noted and illustrated in Kaplan ([2007?]). The entry for this church in Oscar M. Ruiz Pérez, in Cantabria Románica [www.cantabriaromanica.com/articulos/santa-maria-de-valverde] [accessed 6 March 2021] notes: "En el interior del templo se encuentra una pila bautismal de forma semiesférica con decoración de cuatro pétalos dentro de un círculo." Baptismal font in the rock church of Valdeverde; it consists of a round tub-shaped basin ornamented with a roll moulding around the upper rim; the sides of the basin have two (?) motifs, at opposite ends: one of them is the type that can be read either as a Greek cross in a circle, or as a four-leaf floral in a circle; the other, looks like an unfinished floral motif [NB: it has been suggested that the font may have been re-tooled, hence the partial motif, but the surface of the stone appears to indicate that it is an unfinished motif]. The basin is raised on a broad round pedestal. [NB: this font is reminiscent of some of the early fonts of Britain, to which have been attributed Anglo- Saxon or early-Norman dating (e.g.: the one at Morwenstow, in Cornwall - cf. Index entry], although we should not forget Bond's (1908) warning about assigning undue early dates to crude works. The general shape and form would fit in the Romanesque of a later period, even the 12th or 13th century. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.793275, -4.140364

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 47′ 35.79″ N, 4° 8′ 25.31″ W

UTM: 30T 406739 4738489

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Berzosa Guerrero, Julián, Iglesias rupestres: cuevas artificiales, necrópolis rupestres y otros horadados rupestres de Valderredible (Cantabria), Burgos: Monte Carmelo, 2005

Kaplan, Gregory, El culto a San Millán en Valderredible, Cantabria: las iglesias rupestres y la formación del Camino de Santiago, [Santander?]: A.G. Quinzaños [printer], [2007?]