Espino nr Suellacabras / El Espino nr. Suellacabras

Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns - columns with capitals

Scene Description: all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

design element - architectural - arch-head - round - intersecting

Scene Description: all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Ángel García, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2018 by Miguel Ángel García [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Espino._Soria._(29509426138).jpg] [accessed 28 August 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: notice the metal staple in the upper rim and the repaired damage on the opposite side across the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of font - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 August 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22879ESP
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Benito
Church Patron Saints: St. Benedict [aka Benet]
Church Location: 42189 El Espino, Soria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Soria, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 4 km E of Suellacabras, 34 km ENE of Soria capital [***NOT TO BE MISTAKEN with Espino in Soria capital]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Osma-Soria
Historical Region: Tierras Altas y Valle del Tera / Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Magaña
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Marisa Alkorta Ezeiza for he photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; restored 21thC -- the nearby Ermita de San Román is said to be perhaps 12thC
The bucket-shaped vessel has two bands of decoration, top and middle, while the lower third is blank; the top is a blind arcade of round arches supported on columns with capitals; the middle band has intersecting arch-heads all around. There is no cover present nut there is a metal staple left in the upper rim, and evicence of damage at the opposite end of the rim, both probably related to an earlier cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.8475, -2.184444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 50′ 51″ N, 2° 11′ 4″ W
UTM: 30T 567704 4633166