Burgos No. 1
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Results: 19 records
Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidenitfied - 12
Scene Description: the figures are haloed; somne (?) appear to carry the identifying symbol
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
design element - architectural - arcade - arches - columns with capitals and bases - 24
Scene Description: the larger arches are pointed, the smaller arches are round
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - floral - 3-petal - 24
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: the dark patches here appear to be lead plugs from an old cover for locking or anchoring
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: all around the interior of the basin
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
symbol - crown - 2
Scene Description: view of one of the crown symbols on the underbowl
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Jenaro Pérez Villaamil's España artística y monumental (Paris: Alberto Hauser, 1850), p. 62
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-scan (PD-old-100)
view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: Puerta de los Apóstoles, aka Portada de la Coronería -- Source caption: "La Puerta de la Coronería está datada en el año 1250. Su autor fue el maestro Enrique.."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ángel M. Felicísimo, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Novermber 2015 by Ángel M. Felicísimo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Burgos,_Puerta_de_la_Coronería.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carlos Delgado, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 July 2014 by Carlos Delgado [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Santa_María_de_Burgos_-_02.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carlos Delgado, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2014 by Carlos Delgado [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Santa_María_de_Burgos_-_01.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of church exterior in context - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © FAR, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2007 by FAR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Burgos-Parador.JPG] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-2.5,2.0,1.0 / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: at the transept
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 January 2013 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transept_-_Cathedral_of_Burgos.JPG] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramon Rodriguez Sosa, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2010 by Juan Ramon Rodriguez Sosa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_Catedral_de_Burgos_(4952304928).jpg] [accessed 24 September 2016]
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view of church interior - north aisle - chapel - detail
Scene Description: Capilla de Santa Tecla, at the west end of the north aisle, the baptismal chapel that houses the baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2014 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burgos_-_Catedral,_Capilla_de_Santa_Tecla_13.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mariano Sebastian Moreno, 2009
Image Source: drawing by Mariano Sebastian Moreno, 2009 [www.sebasplumillasromanico.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Scene Description: the font after its post-1997 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2014 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burgos_-_Catedral,_Capilla_de_Santa_Tecla_14.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 00524BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Santa María de Burgos
Church Patron Saints: [The original church was dedicated to The Assumption of St. Mary]
Church Location: Plaza de Santa María, s/n, 09003 Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: The cathedral is in the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chapel of Santa Tecla, off the N aisle, W end
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mariano Sebastian Moreno, of www.sebasplumillasromanico.net, for his drawing of this font
Church Notes: original Romanesque church completed 1096;
Font Notes:
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Described in López Mata (1966: 312), in Pérez Carmona (1974: 123), in Guerra (1986 c1978: 84 fn42), in Rico (1994: 402ff), in Bilbao (1996: fig. 86, p. 273 et al.), in López Martínez (2004: 30). Baptismal font of the late Romanesque or Early Gothic period, could be as early as the late 12th century. The large basin has a multi-lobed rim; the 12 sides have blind round arches alternating with pointed ones which contain the figures of the twelve Apostles; the spandrels contain 3-petal flowers; a rope motif band separates the basin from a large round plinth decorated with roll mouldings. On-site notes: there are two crowns carved on the underbowl; also, evidence of old hinges on the upper rim; the underbowl, which originally had full decoration is much damaged and little of the decoration survives; the lower base appears modern; next to the font was a bucket-shaped vessel of stone with a cover resembling a smaller font, but we were not allowed access to investigate it. [NB: the font has been considerably cleaned and restored after our 1997 visit and before 2014].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.340806, -3.704472
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 20′ 26.9″ N, 3° 42′ 16.1″ W
UTM: 30T 441969 4687857
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two (bowl and base)
Font Shape: multi-lobed (12) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: multi-lobed (12)
Basin Exterior Shape: multi-lobed (12)
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 12-16 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 112-145 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 138-145 cm* / 144 cm**
Basin Depth: 60 cm*
Basin Total Height: 60 cm*
Height of Base: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 273)
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978
López Martínez, Nicolás, La Catedral de Burgos, patrimonio de la humanidad, León: EDILESA, 2004
López Mata, Teófilo, La Catedral de Burgos, 1966
Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974
Rico Santamaría, Marcos, La Catedral de Burgos: patrimonio del mundo, Vitoria: Heraclio Fournier, 1994