San Vicente de la Sonsierra

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B01: human figure - female - nun?

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

B02: cleric - tonsured - bearded - holding book in the left hand - right hand raised

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B03: human figure - male - warrior - wearing helmet - with sword in the right hand - with shield in the left hand

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B04: human figure - female

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B05: human figure - female - nun?

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B06: Human figure - female - hands on head or pulling her hair

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2009 by Josín Adanez

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B07: human figure - female

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

B08: cleric - tonsured - bearded - holding book in the left hand - right hand raised

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B09: human figure - male - warrior - with sword in the right hand - with shield in the left hand

Scene Description: he carries a scabbard or smaller sword or daga hanging from his belt

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B10: human figure - female

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B11: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 10

Scene Description: all the arches inhabited by human figures

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BBU01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: small panels or boxes filled with either floeurs-de-lis or six-petaled flowers

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BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: alternating with six-petaled flower-in-a-circle motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

BBU03: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: or 'Syrian star'? alternating with fleur-de-lis

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

BS01: animal - bird - 10

Scene Description: one in each of the spandrels of the arcade

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LB01: design element - motifs - panel

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information

Scene Description: the descriptive plaque inside the church

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information

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information

Image Source: field notes taken 29 December 2010 by BSI

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2009 by Josín Adanez

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the horizontal crack that affects several of the figures

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: notice the metal staple from the old cover in the upper rim, front

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 29, 2010 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: the drain hole in the shadow of the shell

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view of church exterior

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: part of the church and the castle

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the church in the back; the Chapel of the Vera Cruz in the front

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: parts of the castle, the chapel and the church

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view of church exterior - detail

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: inside the portal

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view of church exterior - portal

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the church in the context of the castle and fortifications

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - nave - altar

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the font in the foreground

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - retable

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view of church interior - nave - retable

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view of church interior - nave - retable

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view of church interior - nave - retable - detail

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view of church interior - nave - retable - detail

Scene Description: the Circumcision of Christ child

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view of church interior - nave - retable - detail

Scene Description: the Flight to Egypt

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view of church interior - nave - retable - detail

Scene Description: the Adoration of the Shepherds

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view of church interior - nave - retable - detail

Scene Description: the wedding of Mary and Joseph

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view of church interior - nave - south side

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view of church interior - nave - southwest corner

Scene Description: with the baptismal font in it

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view of church interior - nave - vault

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view of church interior - nave - west end - gallery

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view of church interior - nave - west end - gallery

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: the main altar retable

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2008 by Zarateman [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Vicente_de_la_Sonsierra_-_Santa_Maria_la_Mayor_23.JPG] [accessed 5 May 2009]

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Scene Description: woman, monk, warrior... in the trefoiled arcade, with birds in the spandrels

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph March 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font - upper view

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14595SON

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Maria la Mayor [originally Santa Coloma]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [medieval dedication: St. Coloma [Columba?]]

Church Location: Calle Zumalacárregui, 6, 26338 San Vicente de la Sonsierra, La Rioja, Spain -- Tel.: +34 941 33 40 77

Country Name: Spain

Location: La Rioja, La Rioja

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A-124, 10 km E of Haro. The church is in the courtyard of the Castillo de San Vicente, at the highest point of the village

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Calahorra

Historical Region: Comarca de Haro / Rioja Alta / Provincia de Logroño

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery [sotocoro], near the entrance

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sonsierra workshop

Cognate Fonts: the font at Briones, in the same area

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josín Adanez and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: The church is of the 16thC but the font must have belonged to an earlier church. The mid-16th century retable is by the workshop of Juan de Beaugrant, and the painted work was carried out by Juan de Rojas y Juan de Salazar.

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Described and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) as a genuine product of a workshop that produced baptismal font for this area in the late-14th and early-15th century, fonts that, although of Gothic chronology, are crude products that hark back at Romanesque styles and motifs. Sáenz Rodríguez (ibid.) gives the following identification of the human figures in the archesstarting with the person with both hands on the head: 1)laic person with hands on the head; 2)monk with hood and arms akimbo; 3)tonsured cleric with objects in both raised hands ; 4)warrior wearing helmet and carrying two swords, one in his right hand, the other at the belt, and raised left hand; 5)hooded monk; 6)another such; 7)tonsured cleric with objects in both raised hands; 8)warrior wearing conical-shaped helmet, with a sword in one hand, the other hand holding a strange object; 9)hooded monk; 10)another such. Sáenz Rodríguez (ibid.), however, admits that his identifiaction of the hooded monks is tentative and they could be warriors themselves, as the carving is too crude to mark the difference. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008) as a baptismal font probably of the late 13th century, already Gothic, but retaining some of the characteristics of earlier Romanesque works, the product of a local workshop. Noted and illustrated in Rioja Románica [https://www.riojaromanica.com/categorias/pilas-bautismales#] [accessed 22 November 2020]: "En la iglesia de Santa María la Mayor de San Vicente de la Sonsierra, que comenzó a construirse en el siglo XVI, se encuentra esta pila bautismal que procedía de una iglesia anterior. Aunque tallada en época gótica presenta características que la emparentan por tamaño. Tipología y decoración con las realizadas durante el románico. Tiene un pie cilíndrico con acanaladuras verticales y la tina es troncocónica. La parte inferior de la misma tiene diez arcos trilobulados apuntados con otros tantos personajes en el interior y pájaros en las enjutas. En la cenefa superior encontramos casetones cuadrados con flores de lis y flores de seis pétalos, inscritas en círculos, que se alternan." On-site notes: the font consists of a round basin with rounded tapering sides decorated with an arcade of ten trefoiled arches all around; inside each of the arches is a crudely-rendered human figure, the position and dress varying from one to the next, but representing women (nuns?), clerics or monks and warriors; each spandrel of the arcade has a bird in it; above the arcade, under the upper rim, is a band of quadrangular boxes filled with fleurs-de-lis and six-petaled flower-in-a-circle motifs [Syrian star?]; the basin is raised on a cylindrical stem decorated with broad piping; it may be a replacement of the original base. This font appears to be a Gothic work from a local rural workshop, but its decorative programme harks back at ones found on some Romanesque fonts of the north of Spain, particularly some from the eastern Pyrenees on both side of the border. The basin is badly damaged, with a large crack that affects several of the figures, and a couple of the figures have been danaged separately as well. [NB: the portal of the old Romanesque church appears to have been incorporated in the south wall of the nave, about halfway down].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.559444, -2.7575

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 33′ 34″ N, 2° 45′ 27″ W

UTM: 30T 519906 4711922

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 17.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 100 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 135 cm

Basin Depth: 45-47 cm

Basin Total Height: 67 cm

Height of Base: 41 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: there is at least one metal staple from the old lid locking system in the upper rim of the basin

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en la Rioja, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008

Sáenz Rodríguez, Minerva, "Las pilas bautismales del arte románico en la Rioja", Arte medieval en la Rioja: prerrománico y románico. VIII Jornadas de arte y patrimonio regional, Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2004