Oncala No. 2

Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

BBU01: animal - mammal - horse

BBU02: design element - patterns - chequered

INFORMATION

FontID: 07876ONC
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Millán
Church Patron Saints: St. Aemilian of Cogolla [aka Aemilianus, Emiliaus, Millán de la Cogolla]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the area of Tierras Altas, near the border with La Rioja [Coordinates: 41° 58′ 0″ N, 2° 19′ 0″ W 41.966667°, -2.316667°] [Diocese of Osma, Archdiocese of Burgos]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as one of two a baptismal fonts of the Romanesque period in this village, both of them with intersecting arches on the sides of the basin; one has a band below the rim with animals and chequered pattern, resembling one of the fonts at Narros [cf. Index entry for Narros No. 2]. Rodríguez Montañés, in his "Panorama general del arte románico en Soria" [http://inicia.es/de/FSMLR/panorama.htm] notes one Romanesque baptismal font of the late 12th century in this church. The http://matasejun.blogia.com/temas/geografia.php [accessed 4 December 2009] describes the font as Romanesque and decorated with intersecting arches and reliefs with horses [="una pila bautismal con arcos entrecruzados y relieve de dibujos con caballos"]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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