Gumiel de Mercado No. 2 / Gomel / Gomiel de Mercado / Gumiel del Mercado
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
Results: 22 records
cleric - bishop - with staff
Scene Description: most of the features have been defaced or eroded, but the clerical garb, the hand and the staff are clearly discernible
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
cleric - bishop - with staff - detail
cleric - with book and hissop or censer
Scene Description: the object in the right hand is partly broken off, and tentatively identified here as a hissop of, more likely, a censer; the rectangular object close to the figure's chest appears to be a book -- notice also the capital in the top right angle of the image; only these three arches have carved capitals and bases, however damaged now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
cleric - with book and hissop or censer - detail
Scene Description: the lower end of the figure's vestments
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carme Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 201 by Carme Ferrer
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 December 2015)
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: blind arches except those that contain the baptismal scene, which are on columns with capitals and bases, whereas the rest are on plain columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carme Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 201 by Carme Ferrer
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 December 2015)
sacrament - baptism
Scene Description: Priest holds a cross in left hand above a child in a font. In the priest's right hand is a pitcher.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
sacrament - baptism - detail
![the head of the child (?) protrudes from the baptismal font in the baptismal scene [photograph of a photograph]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151214008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the head of the child (?) protrudes from the baptismal font in the baptismal scene [photograph of a photograph]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carme Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 201 by Carme Ferrer
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 December 2015)
sacrament - baptism - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the much damaged figure of a bishop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the much damaged figure of a bishop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rowanwindwhistler, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2013 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IglesiaDeSanPedroGumielDelMercado.jpg] [accessed 13 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: the Iglesia de San Pedro seen from the castle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © deviaje, 2015
Image Source: undated digital photograph in deviaje [www.deviaje.com/galeria/galleries/preview.php?id=95] [accessed 14 December 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church interior - font - detail
![Carme Ferrer photographing the difficult-to-reach sides of the font -- tablets and cell phones can reach where most other cameras cannot [NB: why were the most interesting sides of this font turned against the corner?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151214003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Carme Ferrer photographing the difficult-to-reach sides of the font -- tablets and cell phones can reach where most other cameras cannot [NB: why were the most interesting sides of this font turned against the corner?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carme Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 201 by Carme Ferrer
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 December 2015)
view of church interior - font - detail
![Carme Ferrer photographing the difficult-to-reach sides of the font -- tablets and cell phones can reach where most other cameras cannot [NB: why were the most interesting sides of this font turned against the corner?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151214004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Carme Ferrer photographing the difficult-to-reach sides of the font -- tablets and cell phones can reach where most other cameras cannot [NB: why were the most interesting sides of this font turned against the corner?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carme Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 201 by Carme Ferrer
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 December 2015)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 22 July 2020 taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 23 July 2020)
view of font in context
Scene Description: why was the font basin turned against the corner so that the scenes remain hidden from view?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carme Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 201 by Carme Ferrer
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 14 December 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00589GUM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Pza. San Pedro, 09443 Gumiel de Mercado, Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-110, SE of Sotillo de la Ribera, 14 km NW of Aranda de Duero, 72 km from Burgos
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Ribera del Duero
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carme Ferrer and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this font, some of them taken with much ingenuity and hard work
Church Notes: present church chefly 16thC on an earlier 15thC building
Font Notes:
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Described and partially illustrated in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009). Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos (vol. IV: 2783). Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the sides of the basin are ornamented with an arcade of [11?] round arches; only three of the arches contain images and these are facing the back wall and therefore of difficult visual and camera access: 1) a possible baptismal scene in which the priest holds a processional cross and jug next to a baptismal font which has a child inside; standing next to it are 2)a bishop (?) with his staff and 3)a priest holding a hissop or censer and book; Latin cross; plain round base; on a modern square plinth. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023] notes: "iglesia dedicada a San Pedro, Apóstol, gótica […] con añadidos renacentistas", but, uncharacteristically, does not mention a font in it. On-site notes: the figural sides of the basin are against the wall and were therefore inaccessible to our cameras at the time of the visit [28 May 1999]; they are very eroded; the other arches of the arcade are blank; metal staples are evident in the upper rim but there is no font cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 433331 4622978
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
Rim Thickness: 16 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 78 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm* / 109 cm** / 109 cm***
Height of Basin Side: 50 cm*
Basin Total Height: 64 cm*
Height of Base: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm* / 94.5 cm** / 95 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 280) / *** Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos (vol. IV: 2783)
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La representación del bautismo de los adultos en la pilas románicas de Itero Seco y Osornillo (Palencia)", 67 (1996), PITTM, 1996, pp. 79-[888; p. 83
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009