Fuentelisendo No. 2 / Fuente Lisendro / Fuentelicendro / Fuentelisendro

Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the ribs of the sides end up in heads (eleven human, one monstruous) or palmette- (hand?) like motifs. 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: "Iglesia de San Pedro ad Vincula […] conserva en su interior dos pilas bautismales de tipología románica [cf. BSI entry for Fuentelisendo No. 1 for the first font] La otra pila, ubicada a los pies del templo, en el sotocoro, procede del despoblado de Corcos, que Madoz sitúa en término municipal de Valdezate […] ya […] abandonado a fines del siglo XVIII […] La pila de Corcos es igualmente de caliza, en forma de copa, con una altura de 76 cm y un diámetro de 110 cm. Pie y vaso están tallados en un mismo bloque, con el vaso de tendencia hemisférica, decorado con una estrecha cenefa superior con roleos y cuerpo con abultados gallones entre los que se disponen pequeñas cabecitas humanas muy erosionadas. El corto pie es uno de los pocos casos decorados que nos encontramos en la comarca, con una forma ochavada y mostrando en cada cara una roseta de docepétalos inscrita en círculo. La decoración del vaso, especialmente en lo que se refiere a las caras entre gallones, emparenta a esta pila con las de Hontangas, Torregalindo y con una de las dos que se conservan en la iglesia de Moradillo de Roa, mientras que las rosetas del pie la acercan a uno de los motivos que mayor éxito tuvo en la ornamentación del románico de las Extremaduras castellanas, especialmente en lo que a portadas se refiere." On-site notes: the second of two fonts in the church of San Pedro at Fuentelisendo, this one is originally from nearby Corcos; it now stands beneath the west gallery and is used as the regular baptismal font. It is also hemispherical mounted, like the other [cf. Index entry for Fuentelisendo No. 1], but the heads and palmettes are here where the vine is on the other font; the heads appear to be mostly human, some female, and are carved aligned with the thick ribs below, so that the ribs appear to be their bodies, in some cases; only one appears to have an well-defined upper bofy with a priestly garment; the arch-heads over the heads are round; some of the spandrels of this arcade have incised motifs resembling plants or flowers, but they may be a later addition. The font is not well shaped, its volumes rather irregular; the base is moulded and is not well centered in relation to the basin. No cover present but metal staples from an earlier cover are evident in the upper rim. There is an interesting legend told by the locals about how this font came to this village: it seems there was a snake invasion in Corcos and the villagers had to abandon their homes; after that the village became deserted and eventually the font was moved out of the abandoned church. 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.