Garray No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16691GAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista, Garray
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: original church believed to have been Romanesque; only its font remains in the present church, which is mid-to-late 16thC
Church Address: Calle Iglesia, 12, 42162 Garray, Soria, Spain
Site Location: Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the S)-615, about 7 km from Soria capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Font Notes:
Besides the well-known Romanesque font at the Ermita de los Santos Martires, García Gómez (2007) lists one other font of the period, but he does not mention the location. The font is described as having a bucket-shaped basin decorated with an arcade of round arches on columns with capitals on the sides. Noted in the Ayuntamiento de Garray site [www.garray.es/index.php/mod.pags/mem.detalle/id.54/relcategoria.1011/relmenu.61] [accessed 22 August 2015]: "En el baptisterio hay una magnífica pila bautismal románica de arenisca dura, con una decoración que la sitúa en un momento románico pleno (siglo XII?): una arquería superior de pequeños arcos de medio punto se apoya en una arquería de grandes arcos también de medio punto sobre columnas con capiteles de vegetales muy esquematizados. Esta pila es importante porque marca un hito, una etapa de la historia del pueblo de Garray de la que ella es el único resto."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 546070 4629522
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.816233, -2.445316
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 48′ 58.44″ N, 2° 26′ 43.14″ W

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; p. 354