Montaves

Results: 3 records

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

LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 07880MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the SO-P-1134, NNE of Oncala, in the municipality of Villar del Rio [Coordinates: 42° 0′ 0″ N, 2° 30′ 0″ W 42°, -2.5°]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as one of group of Romanesque fonts in Soria province kept in very poor conditions and in danger of total destruction; this particular one is in the ruins of the church; the bucket-shaped basin has rope mouldings at the upper rim and on the base; there is a blind arcade of round arches on columns around the sides of the basin. Described in Rodríguez Montañés, in his "Panorama general del arte románico en Soria" [http://inicia.es/de/FSMLR/panorama.htm] as a Romanesque baptismal font of the late 12th century.

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; p. 325, 337