Quintanilla de la Berzosa No. 1 / Quintanilla de la Verezosa

INFORMATION

Font ID: 21118QUI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín [abandoned ca. 1964]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: article in El Pais [http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/03/17/actualidad/1489763456_338482.html] [accessed 26 March 2017] informs of the discovery of a Romanesque (12thC?) frieze built into the wall of the building adjacent to the church here; church re-modelled 15th, 17th and 18thC -- full description of the church in Románico Norte [www.romaniconorte.org/es/contenido/index.asp?iddoc=87] [accessed 26 March 2017]
Church Address: 34810 Quintanilla de la Berzosa, Palencia, Spain
Site Location: Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: abandoned hamlet located off the PP-2131, 2 km W of Foldada, 7 km W of Aguilar de Campoo, near the Aguilar dam
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia
Historical Region: Merindad Menor de Aguilar de Campoo -- Montaña Palentina
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12th-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
Baptismal font of the 16th-17th century here reported by Artemio Manuel Martínez Tejera, in the Enciclopedia del Románico - Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romaniconorte.org/es/contenido/index.asp?iddoc=87] [accessed 26 March 2017]: "la pila bautismal conservada es moderna (siglos XVI-XVII)"

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42º 47′ 4.82″ N, 4º 19′ 51.31″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone