Ucero No. 2

INFORMATION

Font ID: 08732UCE
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Ermita de San Bartolomé [aka ... de San Juan de Otero, aka ...del Cañón de Río Lobos]
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Bartholomew [the original dedication]
Church Notes: This "ermita" was originally the chapel of the castle that belonged to the Knights Templar
Church Address: 42317 Ucero, Soria, Spain
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SO-920, about 15km N of Burgo de Osma
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Additional Comments: Emails sent to several sources near Ucero asking for more details on this stoup -- 10/9/2003
Font Notes:
Romanesque holy-water stoup probably of the 12th or 13th century [NB: the Spanish press (Agencia Efe, Europa Press...) reported on September 5, 2003 an attempted theft of this object two days earlier: a man had been reported removing the stoup from its wall-mounted location, loading it into his vehicle and taking off; the local priest reported the theft to the authorities; shortly after a local neighbour from nearby Aranda de Duero (M.A.R.J., 39 years of age) was stopped at a road-block set up by the Guardia Civil near El Burgo de Osma; the stoup was discovered in his Renault 5 and the man was apprehended.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Javier Torrens, of Pamplona, Spain, for bringing this stoup and the attempted robbery to our attention

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 495724 4618365
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.717072, -3.0514
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 43′ 1.46″ N, 3° 3′ 5.04″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone