Cubillejo de Lara / Cubillejo / Cubillo de Lara / Cupello de Nofur / Cupelo de Nofar / Ovillejo

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animal - mammal - feline - head

Scene Description: seen here in the centre of the image

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

cleric - monk? - head - tonsured

Scene Description: two of them visible here -- they may have formerly had painted bodies [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 May 1999 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - double arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Scene Description: in between the grooves of the upper surface of the rim

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

design element - motifs - braid

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large motifs between the heads

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around the upper rim side

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

human figure - head

Scene Description: another one seen here to the left of the feline's

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

human figure - head

Scene Description: one seen here to the right of the feline head

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

symbol - cross - Greek

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 May 1999 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: a later portal in this 12th-13thC church

Image Source: digital photograph in WikiBurgos [http://www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Cubillejo_de_Lara] [accessed 20 May 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in WikiBurgos [http://www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Cubillejo_de_Lara] [accessed 20 May 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the crude modern cover is standing against the wall, to the left of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 31 May 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in its space beneath the west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 2 December 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00544CUB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín de Tours [aka San Martin Obispo]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Calle Real, 2-6, 09642 Cubillejo de Lara, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Mambrilas de Lara (Cubillejo) is located just a few km across from Covarrubias, but accessible via the N234, 30-35 km ESE of the city of Burgos

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Sierra de la Demanda

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

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996) as a font of the Romanesque period; the upper rim of the basin is decorated with ball motif [cf. infra]; below it a band of double-thread interlace of lozenge shape; next down is a row of round arches which house human heads and a Greek cross; Bilbao (ibid.) points out that all the carved heads had formerly a painted body added below and there was a painted chalice under the cross; the stem is round and plain but the round lower base is decorated with six female heads and three heads of monsters. Bilbao (ibid.) suggests that the reason for the painted parts on this font may have been pecuniary, therefore relying on a hybrid approach -carving and painting- to cut costs. Described and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) who suggests the fonts at Ciadoncha, Mecerreyes and Madrilejo del Monte as being of the same type; VB (ibid.) proposes a date in the late-12th century. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CUBILLEJO_DE_LARA.pdf] [accessed 18 March 2023] describes its font as one of the finest specimens of the Sierra de la Demanda region: "uno de los mejores ejemplares de pila bautismal románica de la Sierra, situada al fondo de la nave principal, sobre el tradicional basamento circular escalonado. Mide su amplia copa semiesférica 122 cm de diámetro × 50 cm de altura, alzándose sobre un pilar cilíndrico de 34 cm de alto, decorado en su base con dobladas hojas de acanto de grueso nervio central entre las que se intercalan y alternan cabecitas de efebo de frente despejada y melena partida con otras monstruosas de puntiagudas orejas, ojos almendrados y gesto burlón. La copa está profusamente decorada, en la embocadura con un bocel al interior, una banda perlada entre dos junquillos y otro bocel sogueado, bajo el que corre ya en el frente una cenefa de tetrapétalas de botón central y una arquería sobre robustas columnas de capiteles vegetales simplemente esbozados sobre basas áticas y plintos. Son los veinte arcos que recorren la superficie de la copa de medio punto, doblados y el interior baquetonado y bajo ellos albergan, de forma alterna, nueve sonrientes cabecitas con peinado a cerquillo y una cruz de brazos iguales, del tipo de las votivas. Su factura es excelente, y aunque la decoración de arquerías es minoritaria en esta zona frente a la de gallones, la encontramos en los ejemplares de Mecerreyes, Ciadoncha, Madrigalejo del Monte, La Gallega, etc., siendo de entre todos ellos el que nos ocupa el más logrado. Debe datar de las últimas décadas del siglo XII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] mentions the church but, uncharacteristically, not the font in it. On-site notes: the outer edge of the rim is ornamented with a rope moulding and the upper rim surface has concentric incisions with beaded tape in between. The crude wooden cover is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.142008, -3.503844

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 8′ 31.23″ N, 3° 30′ 13.84″ W

UTM: 30T 458366 4665666

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 14 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 94-95 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 121-122 cm* / 114 cm** / 122 cm***

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm* / ***

Height of Base: 35 cm* / 34 cm***

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm* / 86 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 125 cm* [85 cm plus two plinths (23 and 17 cm)]

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 277) / ***

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain, round and flat; modern

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; r["References"]

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878