Barca (Soria)

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 October 2020)

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B01: symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: a large one and four small ones in each panel of the upper register

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: separates the upper from the lower register on the basin sides

design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: framing the panels all around

design element - motifs - piping or ribs

Scene Description: vall around the lower half of the basin

design element - motifs - square - concentric squares

Scene Description: seen here on the left

symbol - cross - Greek - pattée

Scene Description: a profusion of crosses: the two panels in this image are covered in them; the two large crosses in the centre are Greek, fut of different shapes and their inner circles are laso different; the smaller crosses between the arms of the large crosses are also differrent; the horizontal armas of the cross on the left have beads at their outer ends

symbol - cross - Greek - pattée - cross in a circle

Scene Description: seen here on the right: the large potent cross has four little Greek corsses inscribed in circles between its armes

symbol - cross - concentric circles

Scene Description: seen here on the left: the 'arms' of the cross are sets of concentric circles; diagonal motifs spring out between the arms

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2020 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 October 2020)

view of church exterior - porch

Scene Description: Source caption: "Del templo original conserva parte de la galería porticada adosada a su costado sur edificada a finales del XII y recientemente restaurada. Quedan ocho arcadas completas y parte de una octava; cinco y la fracción a poniente del nuevo vano, y tres a oriente del mismo." [source: Antonio García Omedes' LA GUÍA DIGITAL DEL ARTE ROMÁNICO [www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/Barca G01.jpg] [accessed 24 July 2020]]

Image Source: digital photograph by Antonio García Omedes in his GUÍA DIGITAL DEL ARTE ROMÁNICO [www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/Barca G01.jpg] [accessed 24 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2020 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 October 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: the object on the left may be a former capital re-cycled as holy-water stoup(?)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2020 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 October 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2020 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 October 2020)

view of font and stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2020 by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 October 2020)

view of font in context

view of object

Scene Description: appears to be a former capital [perhaps from the porch?] later re-cycled as stoup or similar

Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 July 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07818BAR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Cristina

Church Patron Saints: St. Christina

Church Location: Plaza Mayor, 2, 42210 Barca, Soria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 975 30 01 59

Country Name: Spain

Location: Soria, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located on the C-116, 4-5 km W of Covarrubias, 10 km WSW of Almazán, 30 km SSW of Soria capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria

Historical Region: Comarca de Almazán

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta, Kike Lombardero and to Antonio García Omedes [www.arquivoltas.com] for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: late-12thC church; modified 17th, 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and ilustrated in García Gómez (2007). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León (Soria, vol. 1: 214) [www.romanicodigital.com/cedar/pila-bautismal-26375.aspx] [accessed 24 July 2020]. Noted in 'Castillos de Soria' [www.castillosdesoria.com/barca.htm] as one of the best baptismal fonts of the pre-Romanesque period in this province [="una de las mejores pilas bautismales prerrománicas de la provincia"]. Illustrated in www.villabarca.com. The font is a large round tub, the sides decorated in two registers that correspond roughly to basin [upper] and underbowl [lower]; the upper register is divided into several [eight?] panels, several of which are decorated with a large Greek cross in the centre, and four smaller but identical ones, each in one of the four spandrels of the larger cross' arms; one other panel has a set of concentric circles arranged cross-shaped with another set of concentric square to its left; vertical mouldings separate the panels, and a horizontal one marks the separation between basin and underbowl; below this moulding is a number of pipes or ribs around the lower hald of the basin; the font is raised on a circular lower base or plinth. There is no cover present now but the upper rim of the basin shows damage consistent with the earlier presence of metal anchorings for a cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41º 27' 21.45'' N, 2º 37' 17.92'' W

UTM: 30T 531727 4589668

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; r["References"]

Múñiz López, Iván, "La pila bautismal de tradición prerrománica de Castrillón (Asturias): el control señorial del bautismo", 2 (2007), Territorio, sociedad y poder, 2007, pp. 265-274; r["References"]