San Esteban de Gormaz No. 2

Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 March 2023)
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design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: alternating with the foliage motifs all around the basin sides and underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kike Lombardero Lorenzana, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Kike Lombardero Lorenzana
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 August 2020)
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view of church exterior in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10924GOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: [This church is now a museum]
Church/Chapel: Ermita [Iglesia] de San Miguel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: c/ San Miguel, 13, 42330 San Esteban de Gormaz, Soria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the SO160, 15 km SE of El Burgo de Osma; this church is located about 200 m. SE of the Iglesia del Rivero
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church -now a museum- by the N wall
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma, of www.arteguias.com, to Kike Lombardero Lorenzana, Juan Carlos Abascal and Mikel Unanue for the their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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García Gómez (2007) notes a series of fonts in the area that share a common charateristic in their decoration, round arch-heads with fitting ribs inside (fonts at Blacos, Garray, Muriel de la Fuente, San Esteban de Gormaz and Zayuelas de Soria). Baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with foliage relief raised over a cylindrical stem with a ring moulding at the upper end, and a square lower base; the staples of the old cover remain in the upper rim.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.575, -3.205556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 34′ 30″ N, 3° 12′ 20″ W
UTM: 30T 482864 4602611
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Notes: iron staple from the old cover still in the upper rim
REFERENCES
García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 333