Hortiguela / Hortigüela

Results: 27 records

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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

B02: animal - bird - stork

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

B03: human figure - male - standing - arms akimbo

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

B04: human figure - female - wearing headdress

Scene Description: elaborate head-dress

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

B05: human figure - female - holding her hair

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - harpy?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - winged

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches

Scene Description: housing figural or animal motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: the 'circle' appears to be a two-strand vine that weaves its way above and below the floral motifs forming roundels around them

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

head, face or mask

Scene Description: forming some of the capitals of the columns of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of the woman's head-dress

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: two arches: woman with hands on hair on the left - harpy(?) on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: woman with hands on hair

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - detail - stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 May 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font inside the 'sacristy' [NB: the font would not fit through the sacristy door either standing or on its side]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00280HOR

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: 09640 Hortigüela, Burgos

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the N-234, 40 km SE of Burgos capital, just NW of Cascajares de la Sierra

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the sacristy

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the churchwarden of the Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora for his help in the documentation of this font during our second visit on 11 June 2006. We are also grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta and to Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and partially illustrated in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009). Baptismal font probably of the late Romanesque period; the large bucket-shaped bowl has the characteristic garland around the upper basin side; below, pointed gothic arches contain a stork, a rampant griffin, another stork with open wings, a human figure with arms akimbo, a woman with head-dress, a figure with hands on the head, one winged siren, another such; the basin rests directly on the ground. On-site notes: crude work; the rim has a roll moulding all around and an incised line on the upper surface of the rim; below it is a band of four-petal flowers inscribed in circles; a series of pointed arches house the motifs named above; the font is in an appalling state of repair, and its location inside the narrow sacristy makes it very difficult to identify -much less photograph- the motifs at the back properly.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 4' 7.96" N, 3° 25' 36.42" W

UTM: 30T 465529 4657262

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 16-18 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 86-87 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 118-121 cm*

Basin Depth: 45 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 93 cm*

Basin Total Height: 93 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm* / 90 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 180)

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009