Burgos No. 3
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Results: 15 records
design element - motifs - circle
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 June 1999 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
design element - patterns - zigzag - double - two intersecting patterns
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 June 1999 by BSI
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the blocked central drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 June 1999 by BSI
view of font in context
![the font in its new [after 1986] location in the Iglesia de San Antonio Abad, Burgos capital](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1221117001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font in its new [after 1986] location in the Iglesia de San Antonio Abad, Burgos capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph November 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 November 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00526BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de San Antonio Abad [originally from the Iglesia de Santa Juliana, Uzquiza]
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Church Location: NB: Address is for San Antonio / Coordinates are for the dam where the church is sunk]: c/ Alfonso VIII, 65 CP 09001 Burgos, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: 947 207 177 [NB: coordinates given are for the former hamlet, now under water]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: San Antonio's church is situated across from the monastery of Las Huelgas, in the city of Burgos. The former hamlet of Uzquiza, now under the waters of the Uzquiza dam, was S of the NU-820, between Villasur de Herreros (W) and Alarcia (E), about 25 km W of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the transept, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: From the same workshop as the fonts at Pineda de la Sierra and Urrez (Bilbao, 1996). The font at Brieva de Juarros shares some similarities.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: disappeared church [under the waters of the Uzquiza dam]
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, originally from the disappeared village of Uzquiza and acquired in 1985; the large basin is roughly hemispherical and its sides are covered with a pattern of circles and romboid motif ornamentation; it rests on a round base. Bilbao (ibid.) states that this font is from the same workshop as the fonts at Pineda de la Sierra and Urrez. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ), which adds Brieva de Juarros to the cognate fonts indicated in Bilbao (1996). On-site notes: hinges from the old cover are evident in the rim; the limestone font is in fair shape [NB: its original church went under water in 1986]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T469985 468376
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two (bowl and base)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: drain now blocked -- no lining
Rim Thickness: 17-18 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 79 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 112.5-113 cm* / 114.4 cm** / 114 cm***
Basin Depth: 38 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Height of Base: 20 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 74 cm* / 75 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 273) / *** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: anchoringss still evident on the rim of the basin
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-