San Juan de Campiserrado

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2009 by Miguel (respenda) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/respenda/350o373631/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 February 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2009 by Miguel (respenda) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/respenda/3501198322/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 February 2012]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17890CAM

Church/Chapel: Ermita de San Marcos

Church Patron Saints: St. Mark

Country Name: Spain

Location: Soria, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located S of the N-122, in the municipality of Olvega [abandoned village; only the rural chapel remains]

Font Location in Church: Inside the rural chapel

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Miguel Angel Garcia Franco [aka Respenda] for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: though now a rural chapel in an abandoned village, the building may have served as parish church originally

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Reported and illustrated in Miguel Angel Garcia Franco [www.flickr.com/photos/respenda/3501198322/in/photostream/] [accessed 2 February 2012]: basin of a baptismal font located in the Ermita de San Marcos, located in the abandoned village known as San Juan de Campiserrado, in the municipality of Olvega; the obeject, which lies directly on the ground, appears square and totally devoid of ornamentation; it is not in use as baptismal vessel and appears to serve as planter now.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 584304 4625755

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining