Baptismal Font, XIIIth century, Christ's Chapel,Santa Maria la Nueva, Zamora, Castille and Leon, Spain

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Located on the eastern edge of the old town and originally from the 11th century, it was the victim of a fire by the people of Zamora and destroyed in the so-called Trout Mutiny of 1158, which, according to legend, pitted nobles and commoners around the market.

"The commoners supported the son of a shoemaker who resisted a nobleman's grocer who wanted to snatch a trout he had bought in the market. Before they decided on the punishment to be inflicted on them, the peasants set fire to the church while the noblemen were inside. The king ordered them to rebuild the Church in exchange for not retaliating against them."
Church of Santa Maria La Nueva
The original apse and southern wall are preserved in Romanesque traces, while the later reconstruction, around 1200, was of the same style. The original arrangement of three naves was replaced during the reform in the middle of the 12th century by a unified space with large transverse arches. In the north wall of the first section of the nave, the cleft is preserved through which, according to tradition, the Holy Forms came out to stay in the Las Dueñas Beguinage at the time of the fire of the Trout Mutiny.
Architectural styles are mixed in its making: the Romanesque of its head and the late-Romanesque of the rest of the temple. Originally it had a basilica plan with three naves and a semicircular apse that was separated by a pointed toral arch, with communication with the naves. With its reconstruction it was transformed into a single nave, the main arch was made and two adjoining rooms on both sides of the central apse.
Exterior
From its exterior the head is preserved and its semi-cylindrical apse stands out, decorated with seven arches on columns with thin shafts. On each side of this there are two flat chapels. The south façade, which is the portal of the temple, also original from the Romanesque, is articulated by means of buttresses, with an entrance opening made up of a bent horseshoe arch that rests on columns with decorated capitals. The other accesses, already made in their reconstruction, present an absence of figurative decoration.
Interior of the Church of Santa Maria la Nueva
Inside, a 12th-century baptismal font stands out, under the body of the tower, with reliefs of the baptism of Christ and the figure of the famous 17th-century Recumbent Jesus, carved by Francisco Fermín
Mural Paintings
In 1959, some linear-style wall paintings were discovered that are cataloged more towards Gothic naturalism than towards Romanesque.

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