Castil de Lences / Castil de Lençes / Castillo / Castriel / Castriello de Lençes

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design element - architectural - arch - round arch - double arch

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - geometric

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design element - motifs - groove

Scene Description: notice also the damage to the left side of the upper rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

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design element - motifs - semicircle

view of basin - interior

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luis Rogelio HM, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2017 by Luis Rogelio HM [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castil_de_Lences_-_007_(36690823086).jpg] [accessed 29 December 2020]

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view of church exterior - west side - belfry

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view of church interior - baptistery

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view of church interior - baptistery

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: showing part of the ceiling and the west gallery

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view of font

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view of font - east side

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view of font - south side

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view of font - southeast side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00535CAS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Calle de la Iglesia, 34, 09592 Castil de Lences, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-5022, in the municipality and 6 km SW of Poza de la Sal, 45-50 km SSW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de La Bureba / Alfoz de Poza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a N side chapel
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church
Described in Bilbao (1996), who interprets the incised geometrical pattern as the doors and windows of a Celestial Jerusalem. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ), which notes other square fonts at Castrovido and Valluercanes: "En una capilla lateral del muro norte de la nave se conserva un curioso ejemplar de pila bautismal románica, de copa cuadrada y frentes ornados con simples arquillos dobles y otro central imitando una fuente o puerta, simplemente incisos. Pilas cuadradas las encontramos también en Castrovido y Valluércanes, siendo las dimensiones de ésta 81 cm de lado × 74 cm de altura." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] notes: "ermosa iglesia románica, del siglo XII, dedicada a Santa María [...] El ábside es románico [...] La portada es también románica [...] La pila es cuadrada con decoración lineal (rara e interesante) probablemente prerrománica o visigótica." The square basin rests directly on the ground, without base or plinth. The wooden cover is square, plain and flat, hinged in the middle.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 456499 4720204

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Depth: 50 cm***
Basin Total Height: 73 cm* / 74 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm* / 74 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 80.5 x 81.5 cm* / 81 x 81 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) / *** Mikel Unanue on site

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; r["References"]
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967