Leon No. 4 / León
Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2017
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 8 January 2017)
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2017
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2017
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2017
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2017
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)
symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle
Scene Description: it appears to be the only decoration on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sánchez, 2017
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
![as displayed in June 2014 at the Museo Catedralicio Diocesano, León, Spain -- the museum label reads: "Pila Bautismal Mozárabe S[iglo] X Castrillino"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170111014_compressed.png)
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2017
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
Font ID: 09361LEO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, basin only
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th century (?) / 12th century, Visigothic? / Mozarabic?
Museum: Museo Catedralicio Diocesano, León, Spain, [unknown]
Church / Chapel Name: Museo Catedralicio Diocesano
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the disappeared Iglesia de El Salvador in Castrillino
Church Notes: church in Castrillino documented in the 10thC; hamlet abandoned by the 19thC
Church Address: address and coordinates are for the original site: Castrillino, 24197, León, Spain
Site Location: León, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
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
Additional Comments: reycled font : now in a museum of a different locality
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sánchez and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this font
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 System: centre hole in basin?
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, p. 173 and pl. 25