Brazacorta

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cleric? - 4

Scene Description: low-relief carving, now rather faint

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: low-relief carving, now rather faint

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: notice the metal staples in the rim and the rod in the centre drain of the inner basin

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Brazacorta"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2010 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brazacorta03.jpg] [accessed 12 September 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 September 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00521BRA

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [originally monastic] de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: 09490 Brazacorta, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-934, 8-10 km NE of Peñaranda de Duero, 30 of Aranda de Duero, about 100 km of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Ribera del Duero

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery, S side, in the Capilla de San Miguel

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: 12thC church of a disappeared female Premonstratensian monastery; much modified since;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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 arcos y sogueado en borde, sencilla". Described in Bilbao (1996). Noted in Valle Barreda (2009). Noted also in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos, vol. IV: 2732 [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_BRAZACORTA.pdf] [accessed 9 March 2023]: "Siempre se ha mantenido que la iglesia actual es la que en tiempos fue templo monástico, aunque de la fábrica de aquel período sólo se conservan el ábside, parte del muro occidental y la pila bautismal […] pila bautismal, ubicada en el baptisterio, un espacio habilitado a los pies de la nave de la epístola, en el sotocoro. Es una tosca pieza tallada en piedra caliza, de 82 cm de altura y 95 cm de diámetro, formada por un vaso casi cilíndrico, con sogueado recorriendo la embocadura bajo el que se dispone un friso hasta media altura, formado por una especie de tulipas verticales, resultado de querer trazar unos arcos entrecruzados pero mal resueltos. Es muy similar a la pila de Quintanarraya, aunque este mismo tipo de elementos –que recuerdan la forma de un hacha– los encontramos también en la decoración de templos tan apartados de este lugar como son los de Boada de Villadiego y Tablada del Rudrón." Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin has rope motif at the upper rim; arcade of round arches populated with hieratic figures; rests directly on the ground. [NB: the original church was part of a Premonstratensian monastery of the mid-12th century]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.71671, -3.36574

UTM: 30T 469480 4618410

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: round (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 97 cm* / 95 CM**

Basin Total Height: 82 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 273) / ** Enciclopedia del Románico

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