Cascajares de la Sierra / Cascaliare

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B01: animal - fish - 3

Scene Description: numbering of the arches starts here, the leftmost arch -- the three fish are positioned in parallel, one above the other

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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B02: animal - mammal - dog or wolf - passant

Scene Description: passant towards the right

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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B03: animal - mammal - deer or gazelle - passant

Scene Description: passant towards the right

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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B04: animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant

Scene Description: passant towards the right

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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B05: symbol - cross - processional cross - pattée

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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B06: animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: it can be discerned here inside the rightmost arch

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin or lion

B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin or lion

B09: animal - mammal - lion

B10: animal - mammal - horse - head

Scene Description: facing a similar one in the next arch

B11: animal - mammal - horse - head

Scene Description: facing a similar one in the previous arch

B12: animal - bird - crane, heron or stork?

Scene Description: a long beak

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 12 - columns with capitals and bases - double columns

Image Source: digital photograph by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 9/4/2004)

design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 12

Scene Description: a three-leaf or tri-petal one in each spandrel of the arcade

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 39 May 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cascajares de la Sierra - Iglesia parroquial"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 March 2019 by Trastolillo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cascajares_de_la_Sierra_-_Iglesia_parroquial.jpg] [accessed 14 March 2023]

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view of church exterior - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Mariano Sebastian Moreno [www.sebasplumillasromanico.net]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 39 May 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the 'baptistery'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00534CAS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: C. de la Iglesia, 1, 09640 Cascajares de la Sierra, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N-234, 10 km NW of Sala de los Infantes, 45 km SSE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Sierra de La Demanda -- Partido judicial de Salas de los Infantes -- Alfoz de Lara

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

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

Cognate Fonts: some similarities with La Rioja fonts of Ventrosa and Canales de la Sierra

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to D. Luis, parish priest of Cascajares de la Sierra in May 1999, for providing access to this font and for bringing to our attention the baptismal font at Mahamud. We are also grateful to David de la Garma, of www.arteguias.com, and to Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font, and to Mariano Sebastian Moreno, of www.sebasplumillasromanico.net, for his drawing of this font.

Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Guerra (1986 c1978). The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] : "La pila, muy buena, es románica con decoración en cenefa, arcos, dobles fustes, cruz patada, follaje y animales". Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in Palomero Aragón (2000) as a singular specimen ["singular pieza"] of Romanesque art. Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) notes some similarities of this font with those at Canales de la Sierra and Ventrosa, both in nearby La Rioja, but remarks on the much higher quality of this font. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León (2002- ). On-site notes: the upper part of the basin sides bears a vine under which appear 12 arches that contain: 3 over-imposed fish, a wolf, a gazelle, a lion, a pattée cross, four lions in the next four arches, two horse heads facing each other and a stork in profile with a long beak; the font rests on two ample round plinths. Two metal staples at apposite ends in the upper rim. [NB: the bucket-shaped basin is set on a two-step plinth against a corner of a narrow room off the nave, a sort of baptistery; about a third of the iconographic programme is practically hidden and very hard to photograph [NB: identification of the semi-hidden sides was carried out with the help of mirrors and side lights].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.062094, -3.399353

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 3′ 43.54″ N, 3° 23′ 57.67″ W

UTM: 30T 466959 4656748

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: not lined

Rim Thickness: 16-17 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 82 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 116 cm* / 117 cm**

Basin Depth: 51 cm*

Basin Total Height: 73 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm* / 74 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 274)

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

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-

Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978

Lojendio, L. M., Castilla/2, 1985

Palomero Aragón, Félix, Arte de la Sierra de la Demanda, El, Valadolid: Ambito, 2000

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

Sáenz Rodríguez, Minerva, "Las pilas bautismales del arte románico en la Rioja", Arte medieval en la Rioja: prerrománico y románico. VIII Jornadas de arte y patrimonio regional, Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2004