Cuevas de Amaya / Cuevas de Villadiego / Cuebas junto a Amaya / Cueuas

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns

Scene Description: only five of the arches visible now, but probably a total of twelve [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - architectural - building - fortress or tower

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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - bars or railing?

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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - blade?

Scene Description: perhaps an eel?

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - geometric - triangle

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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - unidentified

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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - imbrication?

Scene Description: irregular; may be a later addition

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the drain hole -- has it been re-tooled? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 January 2018 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_santa_ana_cuevas_de_amaya_2018.jpg] [accessed 17 July 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: the present Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Camporredondo, may have been the original parish church of Cuevas de Amaya -- the present parish church, Santa Ana's, is partially visible in the background, in the centre-left of the image

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CUEVAS_DE_AMAYA.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: the present Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Camporredondo, may have been the original parish church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CUEVAS_DE_AMAYA.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Camporredondo (Cuevas de Amaya, España), en las estribaciones de Las Loras." -- the present Ermita may have been the original parish church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph 19 February 2018 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ermita_de_Nuestra_Señora_de_Camporredondo_-_Cuevas_de_Amaya.jpg] [accessed 19 March 2023]

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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

view of church interior - east end

Scene Description: the present Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Camporredondo, may have been the original parish church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CUEVAS_DE_AMAYA.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

view of church interior - statue

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

view of church interior - statue

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Iglesia de Santa Ana, the present parich church of Cuevas de Amaya

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 July 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00567CUE

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Ana [Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Madoz' Diccionario]

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne

Church Location: Calle Mayor Cuevas, 25, 09136 Cuevas de Amaya, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the BU-610, in the municipality and 9 km NW of Sotresgudo, not far from Castrojeriz, 24 km NW of Villadiego, 60 km of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga / Cuadrilla de Amaya. Partido de Villadiego, Intendencia de Burgos, Castilla la Vieja

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes].

Century and Period: 13th century [partly re-tooled], Late Romanesque [altered]

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

Church Notes: 16th-17thC church appears in Madoz' Diccionario... with dedication "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción"

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GET PICS OF ERMITA (FORMER PARISH CHURCH) https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CUEVAS_DE_AMAYA.pdf OR https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ermita_de_Nuestra_Se%C3%B1ora_de_Camporredondo_-_Cuevas_de_Amaya.jpg Noted in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_CUEVAS_DE_AMAYA.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] as a baptismal font is located in a strange position now, as it has been placed in the threshold of an old door in the north wall of the nave, half of the font inside the church, the other half protruding on the outside of this north wall and covered now in a walled compartment when seen from the exterior of the church; the font is of the bucket-type design common in the Burgos-Palencia area, but the motifs inscribed in the arcade of round arches are most uncommon and intriguing; of the five arches visible from the interior, one is a castle or tower, one resembles a blade-like motif, another a pick-axe, one has seven bars or lines, and the fifth is blank; we have no information on what the other arches -the Enciclopedia... suggests there could be twelve in total- have, as they are hidden in the embedded area; the upper rim has a moulding and there are grooves on the top surface; the Enciclopedia… further notes that the interior of the basin has been re-tooled: "pila bautismal, ubi-cada en el muro norte, en el hueco de una antigua portada posteriormente cegada. En realidad está empotrada en el muro, y hasta tal extremo que parte de su embocadura aflora en el exterior del templo, a pesar del regruesamiento que se hizo en ese sector del paramento. Por tanto, en el interior de la iglesia, sólo es visible la mitad de la pieza. Se trata de una pila tallada en piedra caliza, de 85 cm de altura y 127 cm de diámetro, compuesta por un vaso troncocónico sobre un corto pie circular embadurnado de cemento. La embocadura está recorrida por el típico bocel y la superficie externa del vaso muestra una serie de arquillos escarzanos, con finas columnillas de basas y capiteles insinuados, y con las enjutas ocupadas por triángulos rebajados. Debe tener doce arcos, de los cuales sólo son visibles cinco completos, en cuyo interior se suelen disponer diferentes figuras y formas geométricas, a veces de complicada interpretación. De esos cinco arcos uno está vacío, otro porta siete barras, el tercero un castillete y los otros dos sendas figuras que podríamos interpretar –con la suficiente imaginación– como una hoja de guadaña y una especie de pico o quizá el martillo para picar la guadaña. El interior del vaso ha sido retallado, mostrando claras diferencias en cuanto al instrumento con que fue labrado, percibiéndose además el arranque de otro bocel que recorría la embocadura por la cara interior. En cuanto a su cronología, a pesar de los pocos datos que puede aportar tan extraña decoración, creemos que no se puede dudar de su filiación románica, mostrando el típico vaso troncocónico que comparten tantas pilas bautismales de la época, una forma que después parece extinguirse." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 17 July 2021] notes: "Tiene su iglesia dedicada a Santa Ana [...] la pila es románica con arcos superpuestos, borde moldurado y sin pie". There is a half-cover, hinged at the wall end; appears modern. Also described in the Enciclopedia del románico (ibid.) is the nearby Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Camporredondo, believed to have been the former parish church replaced by the present one that was built lower down the hill sides in the 16th-17th century [NB: it is therefore quite possible that the medieval font now in Santa Ana may have been the original one of this ermita].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 398394 4721729

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 128 cm* / 127 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

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

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-