Castil de Lences / Castil de Lençes / Castillo / Castriel / Castriello de Lençes
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view of font - east side
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font
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view of font - south side
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view of font - southwest side
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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
Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2020)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2020)
design element - motifs - semicircle
view of basin - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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design element - architectural - arch - round arch - double arch
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120724011_compressed.png)
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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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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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 - apse - detail
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view of church exterior - west side - belfry
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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
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2020)
view of church interior - baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2020)
view of church interior - baptistery
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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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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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2012 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00535CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a N side chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church
Church Address: Calle de la Iglesia, 34, 09592 Castil de Lences, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
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 Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this church and font
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 System: centre hole in basin
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; p. 199
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 57, 84, 264, 274-275
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, vol. 12: 1228 and 1229