Cuevas de San Clemente / Covas Sancti Clementis
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
animal - bird - eating fruit
Scene Description: one of a pair that face each other; this one faces left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
animal - bird - eating fruit
Scene Description: one of a pair that face each other; this one faces right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
animal - bird - stork
Scene Description: to the right of the rolled snakes; facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
animal - reptile - snake - 2
Scene Description: rolled one into another, to the right of the pair of birds facing right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - torsade columns
Scene Description: arches rest on torsade columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
animal - bird - eating fruit - 2
Scene Description: a pair, almost identical, both facing the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
design element - patterns - triangular
Scene Description: all around, between the vine above and the arch-heads below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal - inside a circle - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
design element - motifs - floral - flower - 3-petal - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LaHornera.info, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 April 2011 by LaHornera.info [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Cuevas_de_San_Clemente_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 27 October 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ferran Petit, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 23 March 2024 by Ferran Petit
Copyright Instructions: Imagen and permission received from the author via Juanma Torrens Alzu
animal - reptile - snake
Scene Description: the head and tail end of the snake that hides as the moulding around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
animal - reptile - snake - detail
Scene Description: the head and tail end of the snake that hides as the moulding around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: incised round arch-heads all around below the moulding that is really the body of a snake
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 October 2016)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00568CUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: 08641 Cuevas de San Clemente, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-234, 28 kms ESE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996). 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_SAN_CLEMENTE.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] as a Romanesque baptismal font: "pila bautismal románica, único testimonio del mobiliario litúrgico medieval que ha llegado hasta nuestros días. Se encuentra ubicada en la parte anterior de la nave de la epístola. Consta de doble basamento circular de 38 cm de altura, decorado con arquillos incisos en la parte inferior y borde biselado en el superior. La copa es de forma semiesférica (102 cm de diámetro × 50 cm de alto) y se decora con motivos figurativos de talla muy somera. Una cenefa de dientes de sierra enmarca una arquería sobre columnas entorchadas que cobijan tetrapétalas inscritas en círculos, dos serpientes, aves afrontadas picoteando piñas y otra de mayor tamaño que ocupa todo el espacio del arco." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] notes: "La iglesia, dedicada a San Miguel, Arcángel, es renacentista […] la pila es románica, buena, de vaso, con arcos y figuras en relieve, cenefa superior vegetal y base moldurada." The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin, the upper side decorated with an acanthus vine, with a triangular pattern right below that; the sides and underbowl is an arcade of round arches on torsade columns; inside the arches are: two birds eating fruit, both facing right; a pair of snakes rolled into a ball; a stork facing right; two folral or cross motifs; another pair of birds eating fruit, similar to the first pair but these face each other; three encircled floral motifs, one with three petals, two with four petals;. The round plinth is surrounded by the representation of a snake. Two metal staples from the old cover at the upper rim; raised on a squat round base with a thick moulding all around that turns to be a snake, the head and tail meeting; the lowwer side below the snake nas incised round arch-heads all around. There is no cover present now but the upper rim of the basin retains two metal spales from an old cover. In addition to the font noted above there is a curious holy-water stoup of a much later date, a circular basin raised on a base decorated with human heads and feet, held from behind by a seated (?) female with long hair; it is damaged on the basin sides.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font. We are grateful also to Ferran Petit for his photograph of the late-date stoup in this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 453028 4664336
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.129722, -3.568333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 7′ 47″ N, 3° 34′ 6″ W
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
Diameter (includes rim): 113 cm* / 102 cm**
Basin Total Height: 50 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico
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; p. 198
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 63, 95, 101, 107, 115, 118, 120, 278
- 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-, vol. 12: 899-900