Retuerta / Abadia de Retuerta / Retorta / Rivulotorta / Santa María de Retuerta nr. Sardón de Duero

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Image copyright © Francisco José García Gómez, 2013

Image and permission received (e-mail of 23 August 2013)

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco José García Gómez, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2011 by Francisco José García Gómez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 23 August 2013)

view of church exterior

Scene Description: the former Premonstratensian monastery now a luxury hotel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josetxo, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2024 by Josetxo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of church exterior - cloister

Scene Description: the former Premonstratensian monastery now a luxury hotel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josetxo, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2024 by Josetxo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of church exterior - cloister

Scene Description: the former Premonstratensian monastery now a luxury hotel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josetxo, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2024 by Josetxo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of church exterior - east end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Cardenal, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2008 by Lourdes Cardenal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valladolid_monasterio_Retuerta_01_lou.JPG] [accessed 25 August 2013]
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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: the former Premonstratensian monastery now a luxury hotel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josetxo, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2024 by Josetxo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of font

Scene Description: notice the hardware from an earlier cover at opposite ends of the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco José García Gómez, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2011 by Francisco José García Gómez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 23 August 2013)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the former Premonstratensian monastery now a luxury hotel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josetxo, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 27 June 2024 by Josetxo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

INFORMATION

FontID: 16208RET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia del Monasterio [Prémontré] de Santa María de Retuerta [aka Abadía de Santa María de Retuerta] [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Calle del Monasterio de Santa María de Retuerta, 47009 Valladolid, España
Country Name: Spain
Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located near Sardón de Duero, 20 km NW of Valladolid
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diócesis de Valladolid]
Font Location in Church: Inside the monastery church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Francisco José García Gómez for his photograph of this font. We are also grateful to Josetxo for his photographs of the former monastery and its font
Church Notes: redundant church (no services held; now a 5-star hotel) -- original abbey here started ca. 1146, was first Premonstratensian house in Spain -- acquired and restored in 1998 by Grupo Novartis; now surrounded by a large 'bodega' named 'Abadía Retuerta'; the former chapter house is now a hotel 'Le Domaine' [the Enciclopedia del romanico notes: "Hoy en día tanto el monasterio como los terrenos colindantes son propiedad privada de la multinacional Sandoz, hecho que, sin embargo, no impide la visita a las dependencias claustrales, posi- ble gracias a la amabilidad de sus dueños"]
Font Notes:
Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with broad and protruding ribs all around; the upper rim retains two metal staples from the old cover at opposite ends; raised on a squat modern base. [NB: the Monastery itself is said to have been founded in the mid-12th century by Premonstratensian canons; it is now [2024] a luxury hotel]. The entry for this building in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/valladolid_SARDÓN_DE_DUERO.pdf] [accessed 25 July 2024] reports a baptismal font and a holy-water stoup [no images available in the source]: "Habría que destacar también la pila de agua bendita –"ejemplo raro y notable" para Antón– que se encontraba en la sala capitular. Fotografiada por él, ésta se asemejaba a un pilar de planta cruciforme con columnas angulares. Presenta un único capitel con hojas palmiformes talladas a bisel y separadas por bandas estriadas que se extienden desde el ábaco al collarino, de factura muy similar a algunos de la sala y probablemente de la misma cronología, principios del siglo XIII. Junto a la puerta abierta en el primer tramo de la nave norte –aprisionada parcialmente por una rampa moderna de cemento–, aparece invertida, la taza de la pila bautismal, que carece de basa, si es que dispuso de ella. Presenta una decoración muy sencilla a base de profundos gallones. Su cronología puede ser medieval."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.616878, -4.410722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 37′ 0.76″ N, 4° 24′ 38.6″ W
UTM: 30T 382468 4608201

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]