Yermo
Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image and permission received (email of 17 January 2005)
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: broken
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
view of basin - interior
![it appears to be totally modern [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140418078_compressed.png)
Scene Description: it appears to be totally modern [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.B. Obregón, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 December 2007 by P.B. Obregón [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_Yermo_04.jpg] [accessed 18 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license
view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail
Scene Description: consecration inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dagane, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2007 by Dagane [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IglesiaYermo.jpg] [accessed 18 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - south entrance - detail
Scene Description: the tympanum of the interior south entrance replicates the theme of the one outside, on the south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 17 January 2005)
view of font in context
![modern or re-tooled basin? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140418076_compressed.png)
Scene Description: modern or re-tooled basin? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 November 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10509YER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: C. el Lugar, 19, 39460 Yermo, Cantabria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located on the S200, just off the N611, 3 km from Cartes, SW of Torrelavega, 35 km from Santander capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval [altered?] / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, and to Mikel Unaune, for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: there was originally a monastery here in the mid-9thC; present church built 13thC a/p consecration inscription on the east side of the south portal dating building to Era MCCXLI, i.e., 1203 A.D.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin mounted on a round-to-square pedestal base; a moulding on the lower base. The basin appears to be totally new, or to have been drastically re-tooled; the lower base is older; original?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.308064, -4.082297
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 18′ 29.03″ N, N, 4° 4′ 56.27″ W
UTM: 30T 4795594 412225
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining