Huermeces nr. Burgos / Gomeces / Gormeces / Gormezes / Huérmeces

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)
Results: 13 records
design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 15
Scene Description: the image shows the damage,. repairs and metal reinforcement cinch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
view of basin - interior
view of basin - upper view
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
view of church interior
Scene Description: showing the location of the holy-water stoup [foreground, right] and the baptismal font [back end, left]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)
view of font
Scene Description: showing the large damage and repair on the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 March 2017)
view of font and cover
view of font and cover - left side
view of font and cover - right side
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 00597HUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 09150 Huérmeces, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-622, W of the N-627, 25 km NNW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: earlier late-Gothic church re-built 1783 retaining earlier tower of 1758
Font Notes:
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Description in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HUÉRMECES.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]: "La iglesia de San Juan Bautista era una construcción tardogótica que fue ampliamente reformada en el siglo XVIII porel arquitecto Fernando González de Lara. El único testimonio románico conservado en ella es una pila bautismal ubicada a los pies del templo, junto al muro del evangelio. Consta de una copa de 124 cm de diámetro y 89 de altura, decorada con un bocel en la embocadura y una sucesión de arcos de medio punto ejecutados con suma torpeza. Apoya sobre un pie cilíndrico de 35 cm de altura adornado con una simple moldura abocelada. La tosquedad de la labra y la simplicidad de sus formas impide formular una cronología precisa. Pensamos, en cualquier caso, que es una obra tardía que puede rebasar con holgura el horizonte de 1200." Baptismal font of the Romanesque period probably post-1200; the basin is ornamented with a double moulding at the upper rim, and a blind arcade of fifteen worn round arch-heads all around the sides; the pedestal base is round and moulded. The wooden cover is flat and round, hinged in the middle. 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: "La pila es románica con arcos y moldura inferior rústica". [NB: this locality not to be mistaken with the town of Huérmeces in the province of Cuenca that has a similar font of the same period -- cf. BSI entry]
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
Diameter (includes rim): 123 cm* / 124 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm* / 89 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
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
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-