Estepa de Tera

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine

INFORMATION

FontID: 16391EST
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [abandoned - in ruins]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: abandoned hamlet; church in ruins -- Located in the municipality of Almarza, 3 km from it
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the font at Valdegeña [cf. FontNotes]
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as one of group of Romanesque fonts in Soria province kept in very poor conditions and in danger of total destruction; this particular one is in the ruins of the church; it is, like the font at Valdegeña, bucket-shaped and decorated with a vine and an arcade of intersecting round arches below.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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