Hormicedo / Formicedo / Formiceto

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the time it was relegated, upside down, to the main square in Villanueva de Puerta; it was later lost
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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design element - patterns - ribbed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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design element - architectural - arch-head

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia románica de los Santos Julita y Quirico. Vista desde el este."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MottaW, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia-santos-julita-y-quirico-hormicedo-6-julio-2014-4.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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view of church exterior - apse

Scene Description: the church in ruins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the church in ruins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ruinas de la iglesia de los Santos Julita y Quirico. Vista interior. Hormicedo. España."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MottaW, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 29 June 2014b y MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hormicedo-junio-2014-12.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the church in ruins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]] -- the mouldings show very worn in the source
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2023
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00600HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Quirico y Santa Julita [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared -- cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] & St. Julitta
Church Address: Camino de Hormicedo, 09125 Villadiego, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Hormicedo is an abandoned [since 1959] hamlet located E of the BU-621, 10 km N of Villadiego
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diócesis de Burgos]
Additional Comments: recycled / abandoned font: orig. from another town; in the street ca. 1996 / disappeared font
Font Notes:
Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, originally from the town of Icedo, also in Burgos province. Described and illustrated digital in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_HORMICEDO.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023] which rejects Bilbao's font provenance; instead, it states that the font is originally from the Iglesia de San Quirico y Santa Julita in Hormicedo, whence it was moved to the village square at Villanueva de Puerta; a few years prior to the publication of the Enciclopedia…, the font disappeared altogether, but there is documentation and, at least, one photograph extand of the font. It consists of a hemispherical basin with broad ribs and overimposed arches on the outside, and a broad moulded cylindrical base. Bilbao (ibid.) describes the base as modern, but the photograph in the Enciclopedia…, which shows the font up-turned, has an old base. The Enciclopedia entry (ibid.) further notes: "La pila bautismal fue sacada de esta iglesia hace algunos años y pasó a presidir una plazuela en la cercana localidad de Villanueva de Puerta, de donde recientemente ha desaparecido. Hecha en piedra caliza, tenía forma de copa, con ancha base cilíndrica. El vaso se decoraba con gallones, formando parte de un tipo muy frecuente en la época y que se halla también en la misma parroquial de Villanueva de Puerta o en Villanueva de Odra. Garbiñe Bilbao, quien aporta sus medidas –102 cm de diámetro y 54 cm de altura– dice, erróneamente, que procede de la también cercana y despoblada localidad de Icedo." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 21 March 2023] reports the parish church here in ruins and its baptismal font standing in the village square in nearby Villanueva de Puerta: "Tenía su iglesia dedicada a San Quirico y Santa Julita, mártires, de pequeñas proporciones, de base románica, de una nave con canecillos decorados y bóvedas encamonadas. El ábside es románico con canecillos. La portada es de medio punto, posterior, con impostas y sobrearco. Y la torre es en espadaña chata, con dos huecos y sin campanas. La techumbre está hundida y el edificio en ruinas […] Su pila bautismal, románica con gallones, está en la actualidad en una plazuela en Villanueva de Puerta".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 418819 4715884
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.591111, -3.989444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 35′ 28″ N, 3° 59′ 22″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 102 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 54 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996)

REFERENCES

  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 281, 298
  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 298
  • 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-, vol. 1: 296-297, 313, 315