Torrevicente
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B01: design element - patterns - ribbed
BBU01: design element - architectural - arch-head - round
INFORMATION
FontID: 16111TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: in the municipality of Retortillo de Soria, SSW of Berlanga de Duero
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period decorated with a ribbed pattern with a row of arches above. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara (2009) notes a number of similar late-Romanesque baptismal fonts that include the one in rhe church of Santa María del Rey, in Atienza, province of Guadalajara, and those at Fresno de Caracena No. 2, Losana, Hoz de Arriba, Torrevicente and Peralejo de los Escuderos, in Soria province.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla-La Mancha: Guadalajara, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2009
García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 331