Hortiguela / Hortigüela
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Results: 27 records
B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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B02: animal - bird - stork
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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B03: human figure - male - standing - arms akimbo
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B04: human figure - female - wearing headdress
Scene Description: elaborate head-dress
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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B05: human figure - female - holding her hair
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B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - harpy?
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B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - winged
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 May 1999 by BSI
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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human figure - head, face or mask
Scene Description: forming some of the capitals of the columns of the arcade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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view of basin - interior
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches
Scene Description: housing figural or animal motifs
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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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
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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view of font in context
![the font inside the 'sacristy' [NB: the font would not fit through the sacristy door either standing or on its side]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060630037_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font inside the 'sacristy' [NB: the font would not fit through the sacristy door either standing or on its side]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: woman with hands on hair
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: two arches: woman with hands on hair on the left - harpy(?) on the right
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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view of church interior - detail - stoup
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: detail of the woman's head-dress
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2006 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00280HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-05-31; 2006-06-11
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the sacristy
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Address: 09640 Hortigüela, Burgos
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
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
Additional Comments: damaged font (in very poor state of repair)
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 465529 4657262
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 4' 7.96" N, 3° 25' 36.42" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 120, 130, 134, 264, 280-281
- Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009, p. 457, 458