Lastras de la Torre
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design element - motifs - radiated
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 January 2011 in WikiBurgos [https://www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Archivo:Lastras_de_la_torre03.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © WikiBurgos, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2011 in WikiBurgos [https://www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Archivo:Lastras_de_la_torre05.jpg] [accessed 25 July 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00605LAS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 09510 Lastras de la Torre, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-552, in the municipality and 5 km of Valle de Losa, 34 km ENE of Villarcayo, 107 km NE of Burgos capital [follow Burgos-Vitoria to Bilbao crossing; at Berberana make a left and continue to
Quincoces de Yuso; past it, make a right]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Las Merindades
Font Location in Church: In a niche, north side wall
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: Madoz' 19thC Diccionario [...] gives the dedication of the parish church here and of the nearby ermita as 'San Miguel' [was it mixed with Lastras de las Heras?]
The church here is listed in Luciano Huidobro y Serna's Señorios de los prelados burgaleses [...] Iglesias (Boletin de la Institucion Fernan Gonzalez, CESIC, No. 126, Año XXXIII, 1954, p. 5), under the parish churches in the Arciprestazgo de Losa, with the comment: "Todas las iglesias tienen pila bautismal." The font here is described in Bilbao (1996:80, 282) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin sides have concave ribs of pronounced arrises; above them, two bands of radiated motif; plain quadrangular base. In Emiliano Nebrera Perdiguero (Burgos, 2016) [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 25 July 2020]: "La pila bautismal, interesante, es románica con gallones y dos anillos de rosetas y su pie es cilíndrico." No entry found for Lastras de la Torre in the Enciclopedia del románico.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.01158,
-3.270825
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 0′ 41.69″ N,
3° 16′ 14.97″ W
UTM: 30T 477930 4762136
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 111 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 282)
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
