Garray No. 1

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals

INFORMATION

FontID: 16691GAR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located about 7 km from Soria capital [Coordinates: N. 41º 49' W. 2º 27']
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original church believed to have been Romanesque; only its font remains in the present church, which is mid-to-late 16thC
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

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

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"]