Silio No. 2 / Silió

Image copyright © Christina Sanchez, 2014
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 3 May 2014)
Results: 10 records
design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: a few, in the zig-zag -- notice also the drain hole inside the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christina Sanchez, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Cristina Sanchez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 3 May 2014)
design element - motifs - zigzag
view of church exterior - apse - detail
view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior - northeast end - detail
view of church exterior - south portal
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 09603SIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de los Santos Facundo y Primitivo
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N611, in the municipality of Molledo, about 20 km N of Reinosa, 30 km SSW of Santander capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 9th - 12th century, Pre-Romanesque? / Romanesque?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela and to Cristina Sanchez, for their photographs of this church and font; we are also grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of www.arteguias.com, for his detail photograph of this church
Church Notes: Arteguias [www.arteguias.com/besaya.htm] [accessed 4 May 2014] informs there was a monastery here already in the 11thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The second of two fonts in the Romanesque church of Silió [cf. Index entry for Silió No. 1 for the other]. This one is a large bucket-shaped basin decorated on the outside with a blind arcade of round arches, the surface inside the arches showing a rough pattern, almost like 'opus spicatum', whereas the rest of the stone has been finished in a smooth polish; at the upper rim side, a flat moulding; the basin is raised on a short pedestal base and round lower base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.148531,
-4.018475
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 8′ 54.71″ N,
4° 1′ 6.51″ W
UTM: 30T 4777812 417186
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining