Cabanes de Esgueva / Cabañes de Esgueva / Cabannas / Capannas

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Results: 32 records

cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - with staff

Scene Description: to the left of the cross

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

cleric - monk - tonsured - with book

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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

Scene Description: the columns appear to have capitals and bases but they are almost invisible now due to the damage all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 1999 by BSI

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

Scene Description: the capital of the column between the bishop (left) and the progessional cross (right) is a head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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

Scene Description: the capital of the column to the right of the progessional cross is a head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure

Scene Description: to the right of the cross; almost totally obliterated, with only the head discernible

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - detail

Scene Description: still visible here are the pleated lower garments and footware of the two clerics on the font, and the bases of two of the columns of the arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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symbol - cross - processional cross - Latin - pattée

Scene Description: on the front side of the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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unidentified

Scene Description: damaged sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: noted in the Guía del Arte Románico en el Valle de Esgueva en Burgos [www.arteguias.com/romanico_esgueva.htm] [accessed 24 December 2020]: "Empotrado en uno de los muros y descontextualizado vemos el tímpano de una puerta con un relieve en que un cuadrúpedo [...] adelanta una pata delantera en dirección a un hombre." This carvin is described in the Enciclopedia del romanico entry for this church as: "lo que parece ser la imagen de Sansón y el león, aunque muy erosionado, el personaje bíblico agarra –sorprendentemente de forma nada hostil– las pezuñas del felino cuya cola surge enroscada bajo el lomo." [NB: the quadruped could well be a lion -notice the tail- and the scene that of Androcles extracting a thorn from the lion's paw instead of that of Samson fighting the lion]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CabañesDeEsgueva20110909130007P1130383.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CabañesDeEsgueva20110909130007P1130378.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - south portal - east side - capital

Scene Description: capital on the extreme right [east] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CabañesDeEsgueva20110909130007P1130381.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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

Scene Description: capital on the extreme left [west] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CabañesDeEsgueva20110909130007P1130379.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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

Scene Description: capital on the second column from the left [west] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CabañesDeEsgueva20110909130007P1130380.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CabañesDeEsgueva20110909130007P1130377.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00553CAB
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín Obispo [aka de Tours]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: c/ San Martin, 13, 09350 Cabañes de Esgueva, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located at the BU110-BU112 junction, about 25-30 km SSW of Lerma, about 60 km SSW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca del Esgueva / Arlanza / Ribera del Duero / Alfoz dd Clunia
Font Location in Church: Used to be beneath the W gallery, but now [1996+] stands in the San Miguel chapel, on the south/right side, near the altar
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta and to Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: Romanesque church (mid-12thC?) re-built 16thC
Listed in Pérez Carmona (1974) and in Guerra (1986 c1978) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described in Bilbao (1996) both as a cylindrical (p. 53) and a dodecagonal (p. 273) baptismal font of the Romanesque period, ornamented with an arcade in which are contained several figures and motifs (partially destroyed sacerdotal figures, a male figure with a book in his hands, a bishop with mitre and staff, a Latin pattée cross, a badly eroded figure, another such); the font rests directly on a thick plinth. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] reports a damaged Romanesque font in its interesting church: "nteresante iglesia, dedicada a San Martín, obispo, románica del siglo XII, de una nave con bóveda de cañón, a la que se ha añadido la cabecera del siglo XVI con tres nervios y arcos de piedra y una capilla lateral. Alguno de los capiteles de la iglesia románica son de discípulos del primer artista de Silos [...] La pila es románica, deteriorada". The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CABAÑES_DE_ESGUEVA.pdf] [accessed 19 March 2023] notes and illustrates a baptismal font of the Romanesque period decirated with crudely rendered priestly figures, among them a bishop with mitre and staff, inside a round arcade: "En la capilla de San Miguel del lado de la epístola se conserva una pila bautismal de cronología románica, de 97 cm de diámetro por 70 cm de altura. La copa semiesférica aparece decorada con toscas figuras sacerdotales, entre las que se distinguen el portador de un libro, un obispo tocado con mitra y báculo y una cruz latina, dispuestas siempre bajo arquillos de medio punto." On-site notes: the basin is actually dodecagonal, although much of the angularity of the polygon has become rounded or has simply broken off, such is the poor state of repair of this font; there is an arcade of round arches on columnat supports all around the visible part of the font [NB: practically half of the font is jammed against the corner beneath the west gallery, its carving, if any, invisible now; the arches of the arcade house [L-->R] a cleric with a book, a mitred bishop, a processional cross, a human head; the rest of the arches may have contained other details but are now damaged; below the figures mentioned above is an area where the font has lost most of the carving detail but their lower vestments and their feet are still visible; a metal staple from an old cover is still evident in the upper rim but there is no cover present. The font has been re-located from its original position beneath the west gallery to the east end, near the altar. It is unfortunate that the now invisible sides were not recorded before the move.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.832127, -3.7846666
UTM: 30T 434957 4631568

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one (plus plinth)
Font Shape: dodecagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 11-13 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 73 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 97-100 cm* / 97 cm** / ***
Basin Depth: 55 cm*
Basin Total Height: 70 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm* / ***
Font Height (with Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 273) / *** Enciclopedia del románico

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
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