Almine No. 1 / El Almine / El Almiñé

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: notice the two metal staples at opposite ends of the upper rim, anchorings for an old cover

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - male - atlante

Scene Description: this one supports the basin on his hands and shoulders

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - male - atlante

Scene Description: this one supports the basin on his shoulders

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 Junio 2010 by Gaianauta [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:2010-06-30_Iglesia_de_San_Nicol%C3%A1s,_El_Almi%C3%B1%C3%A9_de_Valdivielso.jpg] [accessed 25 December 2011]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Daniel Garcia de la Cuesta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2011 by Daniel Garcia de la Cuesta

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph by Mikel Unanue

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 8 September 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00499ALM

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Nicolás de Bari

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Bari

Church Location: Calle Iglesia, 2A, 09559 El Almiñé, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the N-232, just S of Quintana de Valdivieso, 13 km from Villarcayo, 60 km N of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Merindad de Valdivieso

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end

Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Romanesque? / Late Gothic?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue, Pedro Lozano Huerta and Daniel Garcia de la Cuesta for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Pérez Carmona (1974). The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 3 February 2021] notes: "Tiene una iglesia, toda ella monumental, dedicada a San Nicolás de Bari, románica, con cabecera renacentista [...] La portada es también románica y otra neoclásica con frontón. También la torre es románica clásica de dos cuerpos con dos ventanales gemelos de columnas pareadas, con dos campanas y dos campanillos, muy llamativa. Toda recién restaurada. La pila también es románica, con decoración en el fuste." Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ), however, dates it to the late Gothic period. The roughly hemispheric bowl is plain on the outside, except for a moulded upper rim, but the inner well has sixteen concave ribs with sharp arrises; the short stem of the base has a thick roll moulding at the top, and three figures around (a little dragon and two atlantes) who appear to support the bowl; set on a tall quadrangular plinth with chamfered sides at the back. There is no cover present but the upper rim of the basin retains two metal staples from the old font locking mechanism. [NB: cf. Index entry for Almine No. 2 for a holy-water stoup at the nearby Ermita de Santa Lucia]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.831064, -3.596825

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 49′ 51.83″ N, 3° 35′ 48.57″ W

UTM: 30T 451221 4742228

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): N.A

Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 86.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996)

REFERENCES

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

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-

Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974