Belbimbre / Belmimbre / Bembibre / Venbibe
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
Results: 26 records
B1R01: design element - architectural - arcade
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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B2R01: design element - motifs - tree-like
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
B2R02: human figure
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
B2R03: symbol - chalice - holy wafer
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
B2R04: symbol - cross - processional cross
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
BU01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
BU02: animal - fish - 4
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
BU03: design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: all around; populated with different motifs, symbols or human beings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2
Scene Description: all around; notice also the two metal staples from an earlier cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
design element - motifs - plant or tree
Scene Description: in many of the arches of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: very crudely executed; it may have originall been an arcade or a row of niches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
design element - patterns - foliated
Scene Description: a pattern of large outlined leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
human figure - standing
Scene Description: in one of the arches shown here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
symbol - chalice - holy wafer - radiated
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
symbol - cross - processional cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: a central drain may have been blocked
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikiburgos, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 28 October 2009 in Wikiburgos [https://www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Archivo:Belbimbre06.jpg] [accessed 19 September 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph August 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 September 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00517BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Location: Pl. Nuestra Señora, 1, 09226 Belbimbre, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A-62 [aka AutoVia de Castilla], just SW of Barrio de Muñó, 35-40 km SW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga / Partido de Castrojeriz, Intendencia de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] notes: "La pila es románica, con decoración vegetal y arcos". Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996: fig. 94, 272 et al.) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed September 2022] notes: "La pila es románica, con decoración vegetal y arcos". No entry found for Belbimbre in the Enciclopedia del románico. Described in Francisco Javier Gómez Oňa (2020: 103) as Romanesque, decorated with arches and foliage motifs, the base fluted. The basin is roughly hemispherical and has an arcade of round arches all around the sides, sides that are tapering rather than vertical; inside the arches are a number of plants or trees, as well as a human figure, a processional cross and a radiated holy wafer on a chalice; the upper rim is decorated with a parallel double groove; the rounded underbowl has a pattern of incised outlines that appear leaf-like; Bilbao [ibid.) identifies several of tham as fish; the short base is round, decorated with a roll moulding atop and a row of broad flutes that may have originally been intended as an arcade or a row of niches. There is no cover present but there are two metal staples still in the upper rim.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.16921, -4.01297
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 10′ 9.16″ N, 4° 0′ 46.69″ W
UTM: 30T 416330 4669060
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: [blocked drain?]
Diameter (includes rim): 138 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 272)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996