Mata de Hoz / La Mata d'Olea
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view of baptistery and font
Scene Description: northeast chapel
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 February 2022)
view of church interior - chancel arch - north side - detail
!["Los capiteles del arco triunfal son iconográficos; el de la izquierda, muy tosco de traza, lleva dos figuras humanas de pie en actitud de cogerse las manos
en alto, una de las cuales parece luchar con un oso o monstruo. En lo alto, a la izquierda, un personaje pequeño que parece llevar un bastón o arma. A la derecha unas volutas y centauro disparando su arco. En lo alto secuencias de círculos muy groseramente realizados. El cimacio es de billetes" [source: Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1220211005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Los capiteles del arco triunfal son iconográficos; el de la izquierda, muy tosco de traza, lleva dos figuras humanas de pie en actitud de cogerse las manos
en alto, una de las cuales parece luchar con un oso o monstruo. En lo alto, a la izquierda, un personaje pequeño que parece llevar un bastón o arma. A la derecha unas volutas y centauro disparando su arco. En lo alto secuencias de círculos muy groseramente realizados. El cimacio es de billetes" [source: Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 February 2022)
view of church interior - northeast side
Scene Description: the baptistery and the chancel with its Gothic paintings (Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Circumcision, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation at the Temple and St John the Baptist's Decapitation)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Romanico en ruta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in Romanico en ruta [https://www.romanicoenruta.com/cantabria/cantabriaruta10/matadehozinterior1.htm] [accessed 11 February 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 February 2022)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 May 2016 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 10 February 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 23742MAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Poblado Mata Hoz, 15, 39418 Mata de Hoz, Cantabria, Spain -- Tel.: +34 942 77 01 78
Country Name: Spain
Location: Cantabria, Cantabria
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the CA-833, W of the A-67 / N-611, 9-10 km NW of Mataporquera, in the municipality of Valdeolea, 15-20 km NNE of Aguilar de Campoo
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Santander
Historical Region: Merindad de Aguilar de Campoo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, N side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photographs of this font. We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
Church Notes: Romanesque church with early-Gothic elements and later modifications; Life-of-Christ Gothic mural paintings by Maestro de San Felices [detailed photos: https://www.romanicoenruta.com/cantabria/cantabriaruta10/matadehozinterior1.htm [accessed 11 February 2022]
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com] notes: "pila de tipo románico [...] muy sencilla, tiene cuba casi cilíndrica, de arenisca, sin ninguna decoración ni bocel; apoya sobre tambor cilíndrico de poca altura." Plain bucket-shaped basin on a wider short cylindrical lower base. No cover present but the upper rim retains a metal anchoring from an earlier cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.933664, -4.219492
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 56′ 1.19″ N, 4° 13′ 10.17″ W
UTM: 30T 400494 4754170
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]