Hontangas No. 1 / Fontangas
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Results: 17 records
animal - mammal - head - horned - 3
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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head - 6
Scene Description: alternating heads of humans and various animals appear in the spandrels between the ribs
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head - grotesque or fantastic - 3
Scene Description: badly eroded
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 May 1999 by BSI
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 February 2021)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 February 2021)
view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church interior - nave - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 July 2016)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 February 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 February 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 May 1999 by BSI
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 7 July 2016)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 February 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00591HON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Plaza Mator 3, 09462 Hontangas, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 53 11 22
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-200, 15 km SW of Aranda de Duero, 100 km S of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Aza, Ribera del Duero
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996). 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. The font here is listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HONTANGAS.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]: "La pila bautismal, también románica, es de piedra caliza. Está a los pies de la nave del evangelio, mide 128 cm de diámetro por 74 de altura y 13 de embocadura. Se apoya sobre un [sic] ancha basa lisa y exteriormente muestra una cenefa lisa bajo la que se disponen doce gallones, muy desarrollados, entre los que aparecen distintas cabecitas, algunas humanas y otras de toros." 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 Juan Bautista, barroca […] La pila es románica con gallones muy acusados y mascarones". Baptismal font of consisiting of a roughly hemispherical basin with a wide flat moulding at the top and very broad deeply-carved ribs below; between the ribs, at the top, are six human heads, three horned animal heads and three masks or grotesque heads now badly eroded; crude round squat base. On-site notes: a crude work; metal staples from an old cover evident in the rim. [cf. BSI entry for Hontangas No. 2 for a medieval holy-water stoup in this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 433638 4603729
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 13-14 cm* / 13 cm**
Diameter (inside rim): 100 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 126 cm* / 129 cm**`
Basin Depth: 48-49 cm*
Basin Total Height: 32 cm*
Height of Base: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 72 cm* / 74 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Enciclopedia del romanico
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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