Covarrubias nr. Lerma No. 1 / Cueuas Ruuias / Cuevas Ruvias
Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2011
Standing permission
Results: 9 records
B01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
Scene Description: with floral motifs inside
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph April 2004 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28/4/2004)
B02: design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal (quatrefoil?)
Scene Description: cross-shaped, inside the twists of the braid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph April 2004 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28/4/2004)
LB01: design element - motifs - spur - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrés Ortega, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph April 2004 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28/4/2004)
view of building exterior
Scene Description: partial view of the walls with the 10thC tower of count Fernán González
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 June 2009 by Rowanwindwhistler [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ColegiataDeSanCosmeYSanDamián-rectangular.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: showing the main retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Cardenal, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2007 by Lourdes Cardenal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burgos_Covarrubias_Colegiata_retablo_lou.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2014]
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view of church interior - tomb
Scene Description: tomb of Kristina of Norway (+1262) daughter of Haakon IV king of Norway; married the infante Don Felipe, son of Fernando III el Santo, king of Castilla y León
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ecelan, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2007 by Ecelan http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colegiata_de_Covarrubias_-_Tumba_de_la_princes_Kristina.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2014]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paula Guillot, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 Decmber 2011 by Paula Guillot [www.flickr.com/photos/paulayjesus/6492081569/] [accessed 29 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
![in the Capilla del Carmen [aka Capilla de las reliquias]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140106026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: in the Capilla del Carmen [aka Capilla de las reliquias]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 00563COV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Colegiata de San Cosme y San Damián
Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Church Location: Plaza Chindasvinto 3, 09346 Covarrubias, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 40 63 11
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-905 and BU-901 crossroads, 22 kms E of Lerma, about 40 km SSE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca del Arlanza / Infantazgo de Covarrubias
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Capilla del Carmen [o de las reliquias] of the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico. We are also grateful to Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info], to Paula Guillot and to Mikel Unanue, for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: the present Colegiata is a 14th-16th century Gothic building [started 1474] built on the site of a Romanesque church
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996). The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 19 June 2021] notes: "Tienes dos iglesias. La primera, que fue Colegiata,está dedicada a San Cosme y San Damián. Es de estilo tardo-gótico, de 1474 a 1481 [...] La portada es gótica [...] la torre es barroca [...] la pila es románica con decoración de rosetas, del siglo XII". Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/COVARRUBIAS.pdf] [accessed 19 June 2021]: "en una capilla que se abre en el muro de la epístola, se conserva la pila bautismal románica, una copa de 103 cm de altura y 105 cm de diámetro cuyo vaso hemisférico está decorado con una cenefa de cestería romboidal con cuatripétalas en su interior, con un basamento de plinto cuadrangular y alzado moldurado acompañado por una especie de frutos." Illustrated in García Esteban (2003). Baptismal font of the Romanesque period consisting of a hemispherical basin ornamented with a double-thread geometrical interlace, with four-point star or quatrefoil motif inside the rhomboid gaps; plain round base; square lower base, plain except for spurs at 90-degree angles. [cf. Index entry for Covarrubias No. 2 for the font at the church of Santo Tomé]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.057769, -3.520861
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 3′ 27.97″ N, 3° 31′ 15.1″ W
UTM: 30T 456903 4656321
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm* / 105 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm* / 103 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 277) / ** Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
García Esteban, Emiliano, Colegiata de Covarrubias y su Museo, León: Edilesa, 2003