Cayuela / Cabigüela / Cauiolam / Cauuiela / Caviela / Caviula / Xauiela

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B01: Virgin Mary - orant pose

Scene Description: identification questioned [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B02: animal - fabulous animal or monster

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - manticore - without a hood

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon?

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - 6

Scene Description: Peter and Paul identified in some sources [cf. FontNotes]; no sword evident here, but the apostle in the right arch is Peter, holding his key

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B07: animal - mammal - lion - rampant

Scene Description: the apostle on the left must be Peter, holding the key in his right hand

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

B08: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - braid - 3-strand

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: the new construction was being added to the east end of the church; kegally allowed on the strencth of an earlier attachment to the apse, still an unforgivable aberration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Mariano Sebastian Moreno, 2009 [www.sebasplumillasromanico.net]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: photogragraphed 6 June 1999 by BSI

view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - north side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - northeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - northwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - south side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - southeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - southwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2015 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00543CAY

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban Protomártir

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: c/ San Esteban, 09239 Cayuela, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the E-80, 14-15 km SW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Alfoz de Burgos, Mancomunidad del Río Ausin / Alfoz de Muñó

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

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Bilbao (1996) identifies the font at Cabia as being from the same workshop

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mariano Sebastian Moreno, of www.sebasplumillasromanico.net, for his drawing of this font; we are also grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Pérez Carmona (1974); in Guerra (1986 c1978). Frontón Simón (1994) traces the Silos influence on this font. Described in Bilbao (1996) as one of the baptismal jewels of the province: large bucket-shaped bowl has ribbed interior; the upper outer side has a beatiful interlace pattern all around; under it, an arcade containing: rampant lion; a siren with large teeth, the body of a bird and the tail of a reptile; a winged monster; Mary [identification questioned in Frontón Simón]; long-legged monster with reptile tail; another siren similar to the other, another such; another long-legged monster, six Apostles; it rests on a round plinth. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) with identification of St, Peter and St. Paul: "Plenamente románica es la hermosa pila bautismal hoy conservada en el centro de la nave, a los pies. De copa troncocónica de 123 cm de diámetro × 60 cm de altura, muestra el interior avenerado y se alza sobre un basamento moldurado de 21 cm de altura. Decora la embocadura con una cenefa de entrelazo –que volveremos a encontrar en la pila de Cabia– y el frente con una sucesión de arquillos de medio punto sobre finas columnas que individualizan sus basas y capiteles, éstos lisos o con hojitas. Se inscriben en los arcos catorce figuras, combinándose en ellas la fauna real y fantástica, con un león rampante de rugientes fauces, un ave, tres arpías –una de ellas rugiente, de ojos saltones y acaracolados cabellos– dos híbridos de cabeza felina, cuerpo de ave y enroscada cola de reptil, uno también rugiente, así como siete figuras humanas. Una de ellas, intercalada entre los híbridos, es femenina, de prominentes ojos, viste toca con barboquejo, ajustado ceñidor en su brial y capa con fiador que la figura sujeta con ambas manos. En las seis figuras restantes reconocemos a otros tantos apóstoles, portadores de libros que, bien señalan con su otra mano al libro o bien muestran la palma, salvo la figura de San Pablo –identificado por su alopecia– que porta una filacteria y la de San Pedro, portador de las llaves. Pese a la cierta rudeza de la talla, las figuras están dotadas de un notable encanto, demostrando además el escultor su inspiración en los motivos característicos de la mejor plástica del románico final. En lo iconográfico, aunque no existe un programa como tal, el artista plasmó la neta contraposición entre el camino del bien y el del mal mediante el contraste entre los maléficos híbridos por un lado y los apóstoles por otro, éstos garantes y portadores del mensaje que conduce a la gloria, camino al que se ingresa a través del bautismo. Más dudosanos parece, sin embargo, la identificación con la Virgen de la figura femenina que sostiene el fiador de su capa, avanzada por Garbiñe Bilbao y ya puesta en duda por Isabel Frontón. La pila de la cercana localidad de Cabia parece inspirarse en nuestro ejemplar aunque manifestando mayor tosquedad en la ejecución, siendo más evidentes las afinidades estilísticas respecto a la portada de la iglesia del Barrio de Sopeña de Los Ausines." 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 pila es románica del siglo XII, con seis apóstoles y animales y avenerada por dentro, muy interesante". On-site notes: concave ribbed inner basin indicates later date; evidence of metal plugs from an earlier cover in the upper rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.2725, -3.819444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 16' 21'' N, 3º 49' 10'' W

UTM: 30T 432426 4680357

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: ribbed (18 concave)

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 13-21 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 87-94 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 121-123 cm* / 122 cm** / 123 cm***

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Basin Total Height: 58 cm* / 60 cm***

Height of Base: 25 cm* / 21 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 83 cm* / 81.5 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 275) / *** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

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

Frontón Simón, Isabel María, "Dos nuevos ejemplares de irradiación silense en el románico burgalés: las pilas bautismales de Villamiel de Muñó y Cayuela", Burgos en a plena Edad Media: III Jornadas Burgalesas de Historia, Burgos: Asociación Provincial de Libreros de Burgos, 1994

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-

Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978

Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974