Torrecilla en Cameros No. 1 / Torrecilla de Cameros
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church [San Martín] in Torrecilla en Cameros (La Rioja, Spain)"
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the metal anchor and the damage at opposite ends of the upper rim
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07777TOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 26100 Torrecilla en Cameros, La Rioja, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Logroño, La Rioja
Directions to Site: Located off the N-111, about 30 km SW of Logroño capital
Historical Region: La Rioja Media
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: a similar font in the other church of this village
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
Church Notes: 14thC church; re-built 16thC; modified mid-18thC
Described and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) and in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a font probably of the 14th century; it consists of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on two volumes: a short plain stem and a moulded lower base, both circular. The upper rim of the basin retains one of the metal staples of the old cover; where the other one had been, the stone is broken off. A very crude work not attributed to any particular workshop. Sáenz Rodríguez (ibid.) notes that the font was located earlier in a chapel at the west end of the nave, beneath the gallery, but it is now at the east end, in the presbitery [i.e., chancel], north side. [NB: another such font exists at the Iglesia de Santa Maria [aka San Anton], in the same village; cf. Index entry for Torrecilla en Cameros No. 2]
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 94 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm*
Height of Base: 45 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Sáenz Rodríguez (2004)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Carrasco Terriza, Manuel Jesús, Guía artística de Huelva y su provincia, Huelva; Sevilla: Diputación de Huelva; Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2006
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en la Rioja, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008
