Fuentelisendo No. 1 / Fuente Lisendro / Fuentelicendro / Fuentelisendro

Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period ornamented with ribbed patterns; human and grotesque heads at the interstices, as well as odd motifs resembling the human hand. Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), who suggests a stylistic link between the fonts at Fuentelisendo, Hontangas, Moradillo de Roa [No.1] and Torregalindo; also to the one originally from Corcos, now in the church at Fuentelisendo as well. Valle Barreda (ibid.) suggests the font is of a late date with a style bordering on the Gothic. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_FUENTELISENDO.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] describes and illustrates two baptismal fonts in this church [cf. BSI entry for Fuentelisendo No. 2 for the second font, originally from Corcos]: "Iglesia de San Pedro ad Vincula […] conserva en su interior dos pilas bautismales de tipología románica. Una de ellas es la propia de la parroquia, situada en el baptisterio, una capillita abierta en el primer tramo de la nave de la epístola. Es una pieza caliza en forma de copa, de 95 cm de altura y 126 cm de diámetro, con pie cilíndrico moldurado y vaso hemisférico decorado con una cenefa superior lisa, en la que se abren 22 arquillos de medio punto albergando distintas figuras de tosca factura, generalmente motivos geométricos formados a base de estriados verticales, aunque también hay cabezas humanas y alguna cruz. Cada arquito se corresponde con un gallón, decoración que caracteriza a la copa y que la pone en relación con numerosos ejemplares distribuidos por las provincias de Burgos y de Soria y por otras tierras inmediatas, aunque justo es reseñar que, en el caso que nos ocupa, las marcas del instrumento de talla nos llevan ya a un momento gótico, por lo que posiblemente habría que fecharla hacia mediados del siglo XIII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 16 March 2023] mentions a Romanesque font in its parish church: "La pila es románica con gallones separados por cabezas y cenefa superior de hojas y pie con rosetas."

On-site notes: one of two large hemispheric-shaped ribbed fonts in this church; this one is the original font from the church at Fuentelisendo; the basin has very broad ribs with human (?) heads between the top end of the ribs; around the upper basin side, a vine of sorts; the short polygonal base is decorated with large inscribed rosettes. Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), who suggests a stylistic link between the fonts at Fuentelisendo, Hontangas, Moradillo de Roa [No.1] and Torregalindo; also to the one originally from Corcos, now in the church at Fuentelisendo as well. Valle Barreda (ibid.) suggests the font is of a late date with a style bordering on the Gothic.