Castrillo de Solarana / Castrillo Solarana / Kastrello

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design element - patterns - sawtooth

Scene Description: described as 'flower petals' by one author {cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 June 2019)

view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 June 2019)

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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]

Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 June 2019)

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 June 2019)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Image Source: digital photograph [undated] taken by Cristina Sanchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 June 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00539CAS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 3bis,, Calle Iglesia, 09348 Castrillo Solarana, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, N side

Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?

Cognate Fonts: Castellò de Farfanya (Lerida prov., Spain)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez for her photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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."

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