Mansilla de las Mulas / Mansiella

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B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2

Scene Description: with the inscription framed between them

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

BU01: design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: with paint remains on it

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

LB01: design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: with paint remains on it

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2014 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Mansilla_de_las_Mulas_22.JPG] [accessed 15 June 2016]

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inscription

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

view of basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

view of basin - interior - drain

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

view of church exterior

Scene Description: a popular pilgrim gathering centre

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2014 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Mansilla_de_las_Mulas_16.JPG] [accessed 15 June 2016]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the former parish church dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, one of five in this village -- Source caption: "Iglesia de San Martín (actual casa de cultura) perteneciente al Recinto Amurallado de Mansilla de las Mulas."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2011 by Miguel Angel Pescador Santirso [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Martín_-_Mansilla_de_las_Mulas.jpg] [accessed 15 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2014 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Mansilla_de_las_Mulas_29.JPG] [accessed 15 June 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font is not in use and the basin contains flower pots, etc

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2005

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2008 by Guillelo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pilabautismalvalle.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2010]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the second font (?)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2014 by Adolfobrigido [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LE-Mansilla_de_las_Mulas_56.JPG] [accessed 15 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10914MAN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 2410 Mansilla de las Mulas, León, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: León, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the N601-N625, 18 km SE of León capital

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the sacristy

Date: ca. 1699?

Century and Period: 17th century(late?),

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Isidora González Fernández for bringing this font to our attention and providing the local contact to access it

Church Notes: original church here 12thC, but present building is 18thC -- five parish churches are said to have existed in Mansilla de las Mulas: "Fue la primera y única Iglesia que existió en Mansilla hasta 1220, año en que surgieron otras cinco Iglesias que fueron desapareciendo en siglos posteriores: S. Miguel, extramuros; S. Lorenzo, S. Nicolás, S. Juan y S. Pedro, y S. Martín, intramuros; esta última se cierra al culto en el año 1911, permaneciendo su torre esbelta."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a round-to-square pedestal base; the upper basin side has an inscription in Roman capitals running between two mouldings; the underbowl is decorated with a ribbed pattern, the ribs still showing a reddish coloration of original (?) paint; the base is of two volumes: the upper is cylindrical with fluted pattern to match the ribs of the basin, has two mouldings and is also painted; the lower base is square.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.5, -5.416667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 30′ 0″ N, 5° 25′ 0″ W

UTM: 30T 301427 4708123

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 17-18 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 67-68 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm

Basin Depth: 44 cm

Basin Total Height: 74 cm

Height of Base: 33 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 114 cm [plinth is 7 cm]

Notes on Measurements: on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Spanish

Inscription Notes: [tentative transcription]

Inscription Location: around the side of the basin

Inscription Text: "ANO[~] D[omin]I 1699 * PVSONME SIENDO CV[?]RA D[?] P[resbiter]O FEREZ ROSALES"

Inscription Source: [on-site]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: crude and flat; modern