Sotillo nr. Mansilla / El Sotillo
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photographed 30 September 2007 by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2007
Image Source: digital photographed 30 September 2007 by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17189SOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Segovia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the SG-V-2341 (from the A1 / E5, take the Cerezo de Abajo exit to the C-112 and continue W; after Mansilla, take the SG-V-2341 North past Aldehuela; Sotillo is the next village on this road) [Coordinates: 41° 15' 25.67" N 3° 38' 20.89" W ]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the confessional box
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma, of www.arteguias.com, for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: the church is usually ascribed to the 13th-century Segovian rural Gothic
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a round basin decorated with a pronounced upper rim, below which is a band of round windows, and a thin moulding; plain hemispherical underbowl; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base moulded at both ends. The wooden cover is plain round and flat, with a wooden handle. The surface of the font appears very sharp, probably re-tooled.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]