Simancas No. 1

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: it may have had a pattern [rope?] on it originally

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trasgo82, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2011 by Trasgo82 [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Iglesia_de_El_Salvador_(Simancas)_3.jpg] [accessed 15 December 2015]

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view of church exterior - west tower - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior in context - north view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - baptistery

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20227SIM
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de El Salvador
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: c/ Atrio, 47130 Simancas, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located 13 km from Valladolid capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valladolid
Historical Region: Campiña del Pisuerga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: church origibally 12thC; present church, except tower and font, mostly 16thC
Baptismal font with a round basin decorated with a single moulding at the upper rim; the moulding may have been patterned originally, perhaps a rope; the lower part of the font is covered in plaster, which hides whatever shape the underbowl and the base may have. There is a wooden frame on the basin top and a round cover atteched to it; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.590278, -4.827778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 35′ 25″ N, 4° 49′ 40″ W
UTM: 30T 347658 4605900

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]