Matanza de Soria

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Standing permission
Results: 14 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
design element - motifs - vine
hunting scene or zoomachia
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
view of church interior - baptistery
view of church interior - baptistery
view of church interior - baptistery
view of church interior - chancel - detail
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 16672MAT
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Sam Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality, and to the N of San Esteban de Gormaz, SW of Soria capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis of Osma, Archidiócesis de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an enclosed area used as baptistery off the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: mural paintings in this church; said to be medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in García Gómez (2007) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, one of several decorated with an arcade below a vine populated with zoomachia or hunting scenes; some, like Matanza de Soria, Vadillo and Zayuelas de Soria), are rather crude; others, like Cantalucia and Torreblacos, have flatter but more sophisticated carvings. The tails of the confromted animals become vines; the arcade around the underbowl could be read alternatively as a stylised ribbed pattern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
41.635075,
-3.213673
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
41° 38′ 6.27″ N,
3° 12′ 49.22″ W
UTM: 30T 482203 4609282
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain, flat and round
REFERENCES
García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; r["References"]
García Gómez, Francisco José, "Pilas bautismales románicas en la provincia de Soria", 57, 101, Celtiberia, 2007, pp. [315]-358; r["References"]