Villota de Elines / Villota

Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: the upper moulding is flat; the lower one is rounded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the present church is modern; its predecessor was destroyed in a fire

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Pellón, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph by José Luis Pellón, in Iglesias de Cantabria [https://iglesiasdecantabria.blogspot.com/2015/09/iglesia-de-villota-de-elines.html?m=1] [accessed 7 March 2021]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the present church is modern; its predecessor was destroyed in a fire

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Pellón, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph by José Luis Pellón, in Iglesias de Cantabria [https://iglesiasdecantabria.blogspot.com/2015/09/iglesia-de-villota-de-elines.html?m=1] [accessed 7 March 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of font - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font is visible beneath the west gallery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Serna López, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2019 by Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 February 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 23203VIL
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción [aka La Inmaculada Concepción]
Church Patron Saints: The Immaculate Conception of St. Mary
Church Location: Barrio Villota de Elines, 13, 39232 Villota de Elines, Cantabria, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located off the CA-758, S of the CA-274, in the municipality of Valderredible, 10 km NE of Polientes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Comarca de Campoo - Los valles / Santander province
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Andrés Serna López, of El Correo de las Matas [http://elcorreodelasmatas.blogspot.com] for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: the present church is modern; the medieval church was destroyed in a fire
Baptismal font of stone consisting of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with a torus-scotia-torus combination below the upper rim, raised on a plain roughly cylindrical base. No cover present. [NB: this font may be from the original church that was destroyed by a fire or, perhaps, from the disappeared church at San Esteban de Villota, a nearby hamlet disappeared a long time ago]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 426955 4741615

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining