Castroceniza / Castro Cenisa / Castroceneza / Castrum Ceniza

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 August 2020)

Results: 25 records

design element - motifs - floral - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: inscribed in the vine interlace

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - floral - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: inscribed in the interlace pattern on the lower base sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: notice the repaired area and the metal cinch that keeps the basin together

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: atop the round-to-square lower base; much eroded now

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - vine - interlace - double

Scene Description: with quatrefoiled floral motifs inscribed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - interlace - 2-strand

Scene Description: with quatrefoiled floral motifs inscribed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - face, head or mask - 4

Scene Description: three very damaged; this one appears discernible as such

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base - lower base

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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - southeast side

Scene Description: the extent of the damage to the whole basin is evident here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view - north side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view - southeast side

Scene Description: showing the vertical through-cracks and the damage to the east side of the rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view - southwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikiburgos, 2010

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 May 2010, in Wikiburgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Castroceniza] [accessed 12 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikiburgos, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 May 2010, in Wikiburgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Castroceniza] [accessed 12 May 2018]

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view of church interior - north side - chapel

Scene Description: the Capilla del Rosario now houses the medieval font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - north side

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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - northeast side

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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - northwest side

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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: showing tha vertical crack on the left of the basin and the repair to the upper rim on the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - upper view - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the Capilla del Rosarion, north side of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in the Capilla del Rosario

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 August 2020)

view of font in context - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 August 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00541CAS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Calle Iglesia, Castroceniza, 09348, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the BU-901, 5 km NNW of Quintanilla del Coco and in its municipality, 6 km SW of Retuerta, 20-25 km ESE of Lerma, 48 km of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Capilla del Rosario, N side wall
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church 13thC; modified 15thC
Described in Bilbao (1996). In Valle Barreda (2009). Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos, vol. IV, p. 2317 [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CASTROCENIZA.pdf] [accessed 198 March 2023] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the Romanesque period: "pila bautismal románica en forma de copa, labrada en piedra caliza, con una altura de 98,5 cm y 92 cm de diámetro, con vaso hemisférico dotado de bocel recorriendo la embocadura bajo el que se dispone un doble entrelazo que alberga cuatripétalas con botón central. El pie consiste en una pieza cuadrangular recorrida en sus cuatro caras por un motivo similar al de la copa, aunque ahora los entrelazos en vez de círculos forman rombos, el mismo motivo que ornamenta la pila de Contreras y la de la colegiata de los Santos Cosme y Damián de Covarrubias, o que también aparece en la portada románica conservada en el Ayuntamiento de esta última villa. Sobre este plinto se ha tallado una basa circular de escocia entre doble toro, acotado el inferior por una especie de bayas." Described in Hispania Nostra [www.hispanianostra.org/castroceniza-una-leccion-sobre-la-perdida-del-patrimonio-etnologico/] [accessed 14 August 2020]: "el elemento más notable es la pila bautismal románica que se conserva en la capilla del Rosario. Una preciosa pila adornada con flores de cuatro pétalos envueltos en dos elegantes cintas que se entrecruzan enmarcando las flores y recorriendo todo el borde del suntuoso objeto." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] notes: "Tiene su iglesia dedicada a la Asunción de Nuestra Señora y es gótica con reminiscencias románicas [...] La portada es románica [...] la pila es románica con rosetas, de pie cuadrado con molduras". Baptismal font of the late-Romanesque or early-Gothic period; the sides of the basin have a band of double interlace with inscribed geometric quatrefoiled floral motif; the lower base has a diamond-shaped interlace, and a damaged motif (probably a face, head or mask) at each angle. The base has considerable damage, especially on the east side, and is broken through, hence the broad metal cinch that keeps it together; the damage on the opposite side, the west, has been repaired; this type of damage and its location suggests it was caused by the font cover hardware once in place at the upper rim. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 0' 2.77'' N, 3º 32' 13.12'' W
UTM: 30T 455588 4649954

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 275)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009