Cenito / Ceñito

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09789CEN

Church/Chapel: Monasterio de San Nicolás de Ceñito [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: Spain

Location: Zaragoza, Aragón

Directions to Site: Located between Sos del Rey Católico and Navardún, 113 km from Zaragoza capital [UTM 30T 653863 4707252]

Font Location in Church: Inside the ruined church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in the Enciclopedia del románico en Aragón (Zaragoza, vol. 2, 2010). A fragment consisting chiefly of the bottom and part of the sides of a tub-shaped quasi-cylindrical baptismal font is all that remains now [June 2004] among the ruins of this abandoned church. The cylindrical basin has a marked groove towards the bottom, and may have had other ornamentation on the sides

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragment

Font Shape: tub-shaped (cylindrical)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Aragón, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2010