Suso / San Millán de Suso
Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
Results: 14 records
design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
![[NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201105011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: notice the notch cut into the upper side at the back; it was probably made to fit a cover lock in it [NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: [NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
Scene Description: [NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
view of church exterior - porch
Scene Description: this area contains the sarcofagi of three queens of Navarre (Elvira, Toda and Jimena) and of the seven Infantes de Lara
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
view of church interior - book - detail
Scene Description: Source caption; "Enluminure sur parchemin: L'Ange remet à Jean la lettre pour l'Eglise d'Ephèse. Apocalypse II -- c.950-955 -- Monasterio de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, Ms & II. 5, f°29"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph of an illustration in the Monasterio de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, Ms & II. 5, f°29 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B_Escorial_29.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-Art (PD-old default) / PD-Art (PD-old-70)
view of church interior - coffin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: the north aisle is 11thC Mozarabic
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "A finales del siglo XII se situó el cenotafio de San Millán en esta cueva eremítica del Monasterio de Suso que fué su oratorio."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken in November 2013 by Jose Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oratorio_de_San_Millán._Monasterio_de_Suso.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cruccone, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2008 by Cruccone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Suso_portada.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cruccone, 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2008 by Cruccone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_Suso_capiteles.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of font
Scene Description: [NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
view of font in context
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Scene Description: [NB: error? this fonts belongs in San Millan de Yuso]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josu Fernandez Villaverde, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Josu Fernandez Villaverde
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 November 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 22996SUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Monasterio de San Millán de Suso
Church Patron Saints: St. Millan [aka Aemilianus, Emiliano]
Church Location: Monasterio de San Millán de Suso, 26226 San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja, Spain -- Tel.: +34 941 373 082
Country Name: Spain
Location: La Rioja, La Rioja
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the LR-422 and San Millán de la Cogolla, 2 km WSW of Berceo, 15-20 km SE of Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Historical Region: Logroño province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 8th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernandez Valverde for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: originally a Visigothic hermit cove of the 5th-6thC; monastery 6thC+; Mozarabic monastery 10thC; set in fire by Almanzor 1003; restored by Sancho III of Navarre 1030; expande and modified 11th and 12thC; productive scriptorium in it (famous Beatus)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of a composite nature; the basin is roughly hemispherical and has a deeply-carved acanthus vine all around its side between two mouldings; the underbowl is carved with broad diagonal ribs, also deeply carved; the pedestal base is of a much later date, of round baluster shape, standing on a tiny quadrangular lower base or plinth. No cover resent but one of the rim sides of the basin has been cut to accommodate a lock.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.329389, -2.872694
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 19′ 45.8″ N, 2° 52′ 21.7″ W
UTM: 30T 510489 4686357
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining