Trebago No. 1 / Trébago / Trévago

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B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - horseshoe - intersecting

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BBU01: design element - motifs - vine

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BS01: design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: floral, ball, etc., in the internal spandrels of the intersecting arches
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font partially embeded into the wall after the 2002 restoration
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view of font

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16383TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Trébago [aka Iglesia de la Virgen del Río Manzano]
Font Location in Church: Inside [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Plaza Horno, 8, 42113 Trébago, Soria, Spain
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-122, 18 km W of Agreda, 34 km NW of Soria capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font -- ill-treated font: couldn't they at least used *wooden* rollers under the font? Then, after the renovation, the font was partially built into the wall!
Font Notes:
Noted in García Gómez (2007). Baptismal font listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/soria_TRÉBAGO.pdf] [accessed 31 August 2025]: "El único vestigio de época románica que conserva el edificio, amén de dos estelas funerarias de aspecto medieval empotradas en su fábrica, es la pila bautismal, conservada en la capilla abierta en el costado meridional de la nave. Presenta copa troncocónica, de 127 cm de diámetro máximo y 76 cm de altura. Su embocadura recibe un bocel, y su copa se orna con dos bandas decorativas: una superior con el consabido friso de tallo ondulante del que brotan torpísimas hojas apalmetadas y frutos, y bajo éste una sucesión de arcos entrecruzados y levemente peraltados, entre los que se alojan florones y bolas. La ejecución es ruda, de seco estilo y formalmente se aproxima al ejemplar de la iglesia de Montenegro de Ágreda, guardando cierto aire de familia con las pilas de la zona de la Sierra (Cubo, Matute y Cuéllar, esta última de mejor ejecución) y con las de Ágreda. Probablemente su cronología entre ya de lleno en el siglo XIII." Bucket-shaped baptismal font decorated with horse-shoe arches and floral motifs. The Trebago website [http://www.trebago.com/historia.asp] [accessed 16 April 2010] suggests it may be pre-Romanesque, with Mozarabic influence [an unlikely date and connexion!]. This same source suggests the font may have belonged to an earlier church on this site. The basin is bucket-shaped and badly damaged, having been repaired in part [NB: to judge by how the font was handled during the restoration, it is a wonder it did not suffered more!]; the decoration includes a vine uner the upper rim, and a set of intersecting horse-shoe arches all around; there are varied motifs (floral, ball, etc) in the internal spandrels and under the arches.
The Ayuntamiento de Trévago web pages [http://www.trevago.es/index.php/mod.pags/mem.detalle/id.53/relcategoria.1020/relmenu.69] [accessed 16 April 2010] shows the font re-installed in the church after the 2002 restoration and the font appears to have been built into a corner of the nave wall! A digital photograph in Wikimedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PilaBautismalTrevago.jpg] [accessed 31 August 2025] taken 20 July 2023 by Salomon VDl, shows the font fully detached and located in front of the south apse altar. [cf. Index entry for Trebago No. 2 for a possible stoup or font kept in the village museum]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 574481 4636136
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.873635, -2.102444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 52′ 25.09″ N, 2° 6′ 8.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 80 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm* / 127 cm**
Basin Total Height: 77 cm* / 76 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * [http://www.trebago.com/historia.asp] / ** Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

  • García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; p. 325, 336