Respenda de la Peña No. 2 / Santa Maria del Monte

Image copyright © Miguel Angel Garcia Franco, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
view of base
view of basin
view of object
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Angel Garcia Franco, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2010 by Miguel (respenda) [www.flickr.com/photos/respenda/4956217531/in/set-72157617688772070] [accessed 2 February 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 17893RES
Church/Chapel: Iglesia [Ermita?] de Santa Maria del Monte [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Spain
Location: Palencia, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located near Respenda de la Peña
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia [in the Archidiócesis de Burgos]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Miguel Angel Garcia Franco [aka Respenda] for his photograph of this object
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
An object said to have originated in the church or chapel of Santa Maria del Monte, near Respenda de la Peña; it now serves as base for a planter in a local garden; it consists of a trapezoidal basin chamfered decorated with a large vegetal motif on each side; raised on a square pedestal base that has a row of ball motifs on one side, a fleur-de-lis motif in a trellis on another. A recent photograph we received shows it holding up a planter, the upper part of the basin badly damaged. The object does not appear to have been a baptismal font, and may have been originally not a liturgical vessel, but may have nonetheless be used as holy-water stoup.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square