Castrillo de Solarana / Castrillo Solarana / Kastrello
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view of font and stoup in context
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2019
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view of basin - interior
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design element - patterns - sawtooth
Scene Description: described as 'flower petals' by one author {cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2019
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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
![NB: the photograph was taken before March 2019, when work started on the restoration and opening of this portal [http://castrillosolarana.es/pages/iglesia.html] [accessed 22 June 2019]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190622002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: NB: the photograph was taken before March 2019, when work started on the restoration and opening of this portal [http://castrillosolarana.es/pages/iglesia.html] [accessed 22 June 2019]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cristina Sanchez, 2019
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view of church exterior - east end
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Don11491, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2015 by Don11491 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castrillo_Solarana.jpg] [accessed 22 June 2019]
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of stoup
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view of font - detail
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00539CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 15th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: Castellò de Farfanya (Lerida prov., Spain)
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 3bis,, Calle Iglesia, 09348 Castrillo Solarana, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the BU-900, 10 km from Lerma and 46 km from Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza / Alfoz de Lerma
Additional Comments: composite font? / re-cut font? / moved font? [cf. FontNotes]
Town/City Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrillo-Solarana
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996: 103, 275) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the lower part of the bowl sides are adorned with ten prominent flower petals. Bilbao (ibid.: 103 fn113) gives the font at Castellò de Farfanya, in the province of Lerida [cf. Index entry] as somewhat similar. Bilbao's "flower petals" are really shaped like large saw-teeth, giving the basin the look of an artichoke; plain cylindrical pedestal base. No cover present, nor are there any evident marks of a cover in the upper rim. A local source [http://castrillosolarana.es/pages/iglesia.html] [accessed 22 June 2019] suggests the font may be a composite object, the basin perhaps brought in from a nearby church: "Parece que la pila bautismal era también románica y ha podido trasladarse la parte superior a otro pueblo próximo sin permiso (aprovechando alguna obra en esta iglesia), lo cierto es que se aprecia claramente la piedra diferente del pié y la pila de la actual, y tampoco coincide la descripción antigua pila." The other possibility is that the basin has either been re-cut or actually belongs to a later date, perhaps the 15th century. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico mentions no font in it. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] notes: "interesante iglesia dedicada a San Pedro, Apóstol, románico-renacentista [...] El ábside es románico, del siglo XIII [...] la portada es románica, de discípulos del segundo artista de Silos [...] La pila es románica, con triángulos en relieve en su copa."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez for her photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font, and to him and Mikel Unanue for their help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 444656 4647833
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 87.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 275)
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 103, 275