Dosante

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

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Results: 16 records

B02: symbol - cross - pattée - in a circle - with insert - bead, circle or dot

Scene Description: four beads inside at the centre of the cross

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the drilled hole in the upper rim was probably made to hold an anchoring for a font cover -- the baptismal dish may be hiding a central drain hole

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © WikiBurgos, 2011

Image Source: digital photograo[ph 17 January 2011 in WikiBurgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Archivo:Dosantes01.jpg] [accessed 19 July 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - east side

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - north side

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - southeast side

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - west side

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - west side

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font at the southeast corner of the nave, right [south] of the altar

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Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context - northwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of object

Scene Description: holy-water stoup? planter?

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of object

Scene Description: holy-water stoup? planter?

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of object

Scene Description: holy-water stoup? planter?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 July 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00571DOS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Maria la Mayor
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Lugar Dosante 1, 09574 Dosante, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the N-232, 10 km NW of Soncillo, in the municipality of Merindad de Valdeporres [formerly a municipality in its own right]. It lies about 100 km N of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Merindad de Valdeporres / Comarca de las Merindades
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the altar; formerly in the sacristy
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church, font and object
Described in Bilbao (1996) as a quadrangular font reminiscent of a sepulchre [!] García de Castro Valdés (2000) notes medieval quadrangular fonts in Spain at Beloncio, Bullaso, San Isidoro de Leon, Villanueva de Valdecarzana (suggested date in the 11th century); Armentia, Bustasur, Dosante, Gormaz, Quintanillabon, Rosales, Santillan del Agua, Soto de Bureba (suggested date in the 12th or 13th century); Ripodas and Turrillas (suggested date in the 13th century). Described in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ); quadrangular basin decorated with a rope moulding and a potent cross inscribed in a circle: "Junto al altar mayor se conserva una pila bautismal de forma ligeramente rectangular (97 ×80 × 58 cm) decorada con una moldura sogueada y con una cruz patada inscrita en un círculo." No cover present; the base of the font is probably modern. 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 a neo-Romanesque font here: "la pila bautismal es neo-románica, cuadrada y en forma de pirámide invertida y tiene sogueado en el borde y molduras y cruz en relieve." [NB: there is an object of interest by the side of the font [cf. ImagesArea]; it is of stone and roughly hemispherical, hollow on the inside, a circular inner basin; the outside is decorated, the sides with an arcade, the arches supported on torsade coulmns; in the arches there is at least one scene, and in others there are human figures interacting; the upper rim appears to have an incised inscription; the under bowl has diagonal incisions all around -- was the object used as holy-water stoup? as planter? not entered in the Index]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 0′ 46.88″ N, 3° 45′ 21.49″ W
UTM: 30T 438384 4762647

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Total Height: 58 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 61 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 98 x 100 cm* / 80 x 97 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

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-
García de Castro Valdés, César, "Nuevas piezas de arqueología cristiana altomedieval en Asturias", 7 (2000), Revista de Arqueología del Área de Historia Medieval, 2000, pp. [201]-218; r["References"]