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Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

Results: 15 records

animal - bird - rampant

Scene Description: the body of the bird erect, on the left, the scrawny talons aiming outwards towards the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12

Scene Description: three on each side of the square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: very irregular; some of the arches may have some motif in them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: at the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

design element - motifs - circle - concentric

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

design element - motifs - floral or foliage?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: much damaged, but appears to have had a braided or taped pattern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

symbol - fruit - grapes? (arum?)

symbol - unidentified

Scene Description: on the left here? is this the motif described by Valle Barreda as a fish?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the shape of the inner well suggests a later, Gothic, date, not Romanesque
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

view of church interior - chapel

Scene Description: the font as it appears now, in the Capilla del Rosario; it was originally located beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2004 by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 9/4/2004)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

view of object

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antonio Dabán Royo, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban Royo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 27 December 2013]

INFORMATION

FontID: 00599HUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín Obispo
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 09614 Huerta de Arriba, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located on the BU-821, about 80 km ESE of Burgos, right at the border with La Rioja
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Sierra de la Demanda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Capilla del Rosario [formerly beneath the W gallery]
Century and Period: 13th - 16th century[composite font?], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma of www.arteguias.com, to Antonio Daban Royo and Mikel Unanue, all Amigos del Románico, for thier photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
Described in Bilbao (1996) as an interesting example of Romanesque font in the region: to the arcade ornamentation so common in this area it adds a number of rampant birds [NB: Bilbao (ibid.) refers to them as doves in another reference and concentric spheres, as well as bunches of grapes and ears of wheat; the base has bands of twist motif; the square lower base has ball motifs and double arches on all sides. Noted in Valle Barreda (2009), who mentions a fish on the side of the font, between the birds. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HUERTA_DE_ARRIBA.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023] lists and illustrates the font as a somewhat odd specimen of the type common in the Sierra region: "En el interior de la citada capilla oriental se conserva un curioso y desgastado ejemplar de pila bautismal románica,de copa troncocónica de 100 cm de diámetro × 63 cm dealtura, decorada con un rebaje en la embocadura, sucesión de círculos concéntricos y toscas aves en posición lateral –especie de pelícanos o pavos reales que ilustrarían el carácter salvífico del bautismo–, flanqueando a un pez, sobre una arquería de arcos de medio punto que en algunos casos albergan nuevos círculos incisos. Se alza la copa sobre un tenante de 40 cm de altura, compuesto de un breve pilar circular sobre basa ática de toro inferior aplastado decorado con semibezantes, con bolas y sobre alto plinto ornado con arquerías incisas. Aunque la tipología del basamento responde a los vistos en numerosos ejemplares serranos (Terrazas, Moncalvillo, Carazo, Palacios de la Sierra, etc.), la ruda decoración de la copa representa, pese a sus carencias técnicas, casi una novedad en la zona." 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: "Tiene su iglesia dedicada a San Martín, obispo, y es renacentista con restos románicos […] La pila es románica con arcos y círculos y pie cuadrado con serpiente rústica". This baptismal font, now in a late Gothic-Renaissance church, may be from a previous church. [NB: if the basin is Romanesque, and that would be quite a stretch to take, considering the shape of the basin and base, the motifs, the shape of the inner well, etc., the whole font is then a composite object, with a later base. The font shows damage to the upper rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 6' 59.19" N, 3° 4' 55.52" W

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): 100 cm* / **
Basin Total Height: 63 cm**`
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 281) / ** Enciclopedia del romanico

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