San Pedro Manrique / San Pedro de Yanguas

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Circulo Romanico, 2010
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horseshoe arches

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Circulo Romanico, 2010
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Circulo Romanico, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in Circulo Romanico [http://circuloromanico.blogdiario.com/img/SOPilaB.jpg] [accessed 16 April 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEW

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07875MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of La Losa?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Martín de San Pedro Manrique
Font Location in Church: Inside, in a room off the nave fashioned as baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the iglesia de Valdecantos
Church Address: Pl. San Martín, 42174 San Pedro Manrique, Soria, Spain
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SO-630, about 55 km NE of Soria capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Additional Comments: moved font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described and ilustrated in Herbosa (1999) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; hemispherical basin ornamented with a roll moulding at the upper rim and a blind arcade of horseshoe arches all around. The cylindrical stem of the base is plain; the lower base is circular and plain. Although the workmanship of this font is rather crude, the Mozarabic arcade is quite charming and not very common an ornamentation on fonts of this area where arcades of the Romanesque period tend to have round arches. Noted in García Gómez (2007). Rodríguez Montañés, in his "Panorama general del arte románico en Soria" [http://inicia.es/de/FSMLR/panorama.htm] states that the font was originally from Valdecantos, as does the entry in Arquivoltas [https://www.arquivoltas.com/13-Soria/01-SanPedroManrique.htm] [accessed 20 May 2025], which shows a detail of the basin which shows a kneeling figure, unfortunately mucg damaged now: "La pequeña estancia conformada por la portada y dos muretes, se halla en funciones de baptisterio. Allí está la pila bautismal románica procedente de la iglesia de Valdecantos. Es una bonita pieza decorada con arquillos ultrasemicirculares apeados en columnillas, dando en conjunto idea de galería. Posee además una pequeña y deteriorada figura de una persona arrodillada en actitud orante." The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/soria_SAN_PEDRO_MANRIQUE.pdf] [accessed 20 May 2025] describes and illustrates the font: "En el baptisterio del que forma parte la portada se conserva un bello ejemplar de pila bautismal en caliza, procedente de la derruida iglesia de Valdecantos, abandonada localidad cercana a Santa Cruz de Yanguas. Su copa tiene forma semiesférica, de 88 cm de diámetro × 49 cm de altura. Decora su embocadura con un simple listel y el frente recibe una sucesión de arcos netamente ultrasemicirculares tallados a bisel. Sólo en uno de los arcos, y lamentablemente fracturada, aparece una figurilla humana sumamente tosca, en posición lateral y arrodillada. El carácter arcaizante de los arcos de herradura, inspirados por el arte mozárabe o el califal, que podría llevar esta pieza a fechas tempranas, creemos que es sólo un eco tardío ya dentro del siglo XII, como sucede con las pilas conquenses de Henche y Valdemeca."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 563601 4653516
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.031111, -2.231667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 1′ 52″ N, 2° 13′ 54″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
  • García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 323, 325