Velilla del Rio Carrion / Velilla del Río Carrión

INFORMATION

FontID: 07575VEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Juan?
Church Patron Saints: St. John?
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the C-615, in the Parque Natural Fuentres Carrionas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: In the nearby Ermita de Areños is a [part of?] former Roman altar which may have been used as holy-water stoup [thes ources are not clear on this object; there may be two parts; one is mentioned in La rEana, the other in this Ermita.
Font Notes:
Listed in Sancho Campo (2002) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Romanesque period [not clear where the font is located in this village -- two ermitas are mentioned in the source below: San Juan and Areños] [www.dip-palencia.es/velilla]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002