Castrillo de Riopisuerga / Castrello / Castriello de Pisorga / Castrielo / Castrillo de Rio Pisuerga / Castrillo de Río-Pisuerga

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Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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cleric - abbot or bishop - staff

Scene Description: one of two decorated corners of the basin: a corner cluster that includes a vertical braid, an abbot's or bishop's staff on the right and a human head below

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: one of two decorated corbers of the basin: a corner cluster that includes a vertical braid, an abbot's or bishop's staff on the right and a human head below

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - braid

Scene Description: the second of the two decorated croners of the basin; this one clusters only the braid and the human head

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - braid

Scene Description: all around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: broad bands on the four sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of two decorated corbers of the basin: a corner cluster that includes a vertical braid, an abbot's or bishop's staff on the right and a human head below

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - head

Scene Description: the second of the two decorated croners of the basin; this one clusters only the braid and the human head

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 November 2021)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the centre drain

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - apse - window - detail

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - porch - tower entrance

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Bartolomé en Castrillo de Riopisuerga (Provincia de Burgos, Castilla y León)"

view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the second of the two decorated croners of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 21 November 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: two objects without apparent use inside the church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00538CAS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: c/ Seo, 8, 09108 Castrillo de Riopisuerga, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-6113, 11 km SE of Herrera de Pisuerga, 22 km W of Villadiego, WNW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca Odra-Pisuerga

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico

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Described in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ): "Al fondo de la nave norte se encuentra la pila bautismal, de piedra arenisca, igualmente románica. Es una curiosa pieza en forma de copa, de pie prismático y vaso cuadrado, con una altura total de 70 cm y una anchura de 84 × 89 cm. El vaso muestra un bocel en la embocadura exterior y una especie de cadena de gruesos eslabones en la interior. Los frentes están recorridos por toscas líneas en zigzag, a veces simples incisiones, pero que en algún caso llegan a formar casi medios boceles. En cuanto a las aristas verticales, son bastante diferentes: una de ellas simple, otra con bocel, otra con los citados eslabones, con una cabecita humana en la esquina inferior, y la cuarta con la misma cadena, pero ahora flanqueada en su parte superior por motivos vegetales. [...] En relación con la de Castrillo de Riopisuerga Palomero e Ilardia (1991-1992) han sugerido que su forma quizá pueda remontarse al siglo X, pero la presencia de boceles no deja duda sobre su filiación románica. Apuntan los mismos autores que “su tamaño nos hace pensar en la posibilidad de un bautismo por inmersión”, lo que tampoco parece muy probable, a tenor de los 39 cm de profundidad que tiene el hueco." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] notes: "la iglesia del lugar está dedicada a San Bartolomé, Apóstol, y es de tres naves góticas [...] El ábside es románico [...] La portada es renacentista [...] La pila es románica, cuadrada, con molduras y líneas incisas dentadas". Baptismal font consisting of a square basin decorated with a simple interlace pattern around the inner rim of the well, while the outer sides are ornamented with large zigzag bands; the angles of the basin have been carved with a variety of motifs: one is plain, another has thin column or piping, while the two others have a pattern that resembles the interlace found around the rim of the inner well, one with a tiny human head at the bottom, the other with foliage motif at the top; it is raised on a quadrangular base. Square fonts in this region are not very common, though the Enciclopedia… (2008) notes: Olvega and Gormaz (Soria prov.); Bustillo de Santullan and Villaverde de la Pena (Palencia prov.) Rosales, Quintanillabon, Grisalena, Dosante, Valluercanes, Castrovido, Cernegula, Santillan del Agua, Bortedo, Llano de Bureba, Castil de Lences and Castrillo de Rio Pisuerga (Burgos prov.); last, but certainly not least, is the font of the Colegiata de San Isidoro in Leon capital.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.51581, -4.25326

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 30' 56.9" N, 4° 15' 11.7" W

UTM: 30T 397050 4707810

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: rectangular

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Depth: 39 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm* / 70 cm**

Trapezoidal Basin: 88 x 84 cm* / 84 x 89 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: the upper rim of the basin retains two metal staples from the old cover

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-