Leon No. 4 / León

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 8 January 2017)

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symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle

Scene Description: it appears to be the only decoration on the font

Image Source: edited detail of a undated digital photograph taken by Cristina Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 8 January 2017)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: as displayed in June 2014 at the Museo Catedralicio Diocesano, León, Spain -- the museum label reads: "Pila Bautismal Mozárabe S[iglo] X Castrillino"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (email of 8 January 2017)

view of font

Image Source: undated digital photograph taken by Cristina Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 8 January 2017)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: undated digital photograph taken by Cristina Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 8 January 2017)

view of font in context

Scene Description: as displayed in June 2014 at the Museo Catedralicio Diocesano, León, Spain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (email of 8 January 2017)

view of font in context

Scene Description: as displayed in June 2014 at the Museo Catedralicio Diocesano, León, Spain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (email of 8 January 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09361LEO

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Catedralicio Diocesano, León, Spain

Church/Chapel: [originally from the disappeared Iglesia de El Salvador in Castrillino]

Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ

Church Location: address and coordinates are for the original site: Castrillino, 24197, León, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: León, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Castrillino was a hamlet in the municipality of Villaquilambre and 6 km from it, 11 km from León capital

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diócesis de León]

Historical Region: Ribera de Torío

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 10th century (?) / 12th century, Visigothic? / Mozarabic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sánchez and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: church in Castrillino documented in the 10thC; hamlet abandoned by the 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in Gómez Rascón (2003: p. 173, pl. 25): bucket-shaped baptismal font decorated with a single inscribed Maltese cross; the motif is located on the side of the basin near the upper rim. The vessel, which is described in Gómez Rascón;'s catalogue as a Visigothic-Mozarabic immersion font [= "pila visigótico-mozárabe […] de bautismo por inmersión"], is dated to the 10th century, originally from Castrillino, a hamlet in the municipality of Villaquilambre, N of León capital, and now in the care of the Museo Catedralicio Diocesano in this town. Despite the claim by this author and the dating assigned in the Museo's label the font is probably 12th-century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 294174 4725469

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the centre of the basin interior is covered by a stone now -- the font has no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm* [approx.]

Basin Total Height: 60 cm* [approx.]

Notes on Measurements: These measurements are calculated roughly on the only measurement given in the source, the size of the cross motif, 20 x 20 cm (Gómez Rascón (2003: p. 173))

REFERENCES

Gómez Rascón, Máximo, Pantócrator y siervo: iconografía cristológica en la Diócesis de León, León: EDILESA, 2003