Villardefrades No. 1

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - patterns - ribbed - flat ribs or slats- diagonal

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view of church exterior

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18638VIL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Andrés

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 47860 Villardefrades, Valladolid

Country Name: Spain

Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the C-519, 27 km NNE of Toro, 62 km NW of Valladolid capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Zamora

Historical Region: Tierra de Campos

Font Location in Church: Inside the ufinished church

Century and Period: 15th - 17th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Francisco José García Gómez for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: the present unfinished church is 17th-18th-century

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present disused font -there are no services held in this church- is probably a remnant of an earlier church here, or one brought from a nearby parish church. It is a crude work, executed probably by a local mason; it is a monolithic roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and a diagonal pattern of flat ribs; a miniscule moulded base, probably part of the main block. The crudeness and bad state of the font should not necessarily be taken as an indicator of antiquity; without access to closer examination, the font could be date somewhere between the 15th and the 17th century. The nearby rural church or chapel [="ermita"] of San Cucufá [aka Cucufate, Cugat] is 18th-century but has a retable of the 17th. The entry for this chapel in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León (Valladolid vol.) states that San Cucufá was the parish church for Villardefrades, a building though to be 13th-century, even though uncorroborated claims of including some remains of an earlier Romanesque building have been made. [cf. Index entry for Villardefrades No. 2 for an interesting holy-water stoup in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 43' 22.78" N, 5° 15' 19.33" W

UTM: 30T 312830 4620765

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-