Lerma No. 1

Results: 21 records

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - passant - regardant - with dove

Scene Description: the centaur and the dove are facing each other, with the dove perched on the back of the monster, who appears to have discharged his arrow

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant-gardant - foliated tail - 2

Scene Description: the dragons face each other between the manticores and the griffin

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant-regardant - foliated tail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin - passant

Scene Description: facing a Tree of Life (?), with a lion on the other side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - manticore - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - manticore - passant-gardant - foliated tail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: to the right of the Tree of Life

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases

Scene Description: not clear whether the foliage (?) at the upper end forms part of the capitals or not; the bases are just roll mouldings

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

symbol - tree - Tree of life

Scene Description: with a griffin on the left and a lion on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the large crack invlving almost half of the basin is visible here, as are the metals staples and the cement used in the repair

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cristóbal de Rojas y Sandoval, arzobispo de Sevilla, reforma y amplía la iglesia lermeña de San Pedro, siendo fray Alberto de la Madre de Dios el arquitecto (1613)."

Image Source: digital photograph taken in November 2013 by Jose Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Colegial_de_San_Pedro._Lerma_(Burgos).jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00606LER

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Colegiata de San Pedro

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Plaza de San Pedro, 09340 Lerma, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 17 01 03

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Locatedoff the E-5 - N-622 crossroads, 42 km SSW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, at the W end, N side of the nave

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefull to the parish priest at San Pedro for the access to, and information on this font; we are also gratefult to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Pérez Carmona (1974). Described and partially illustrated in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) with date in the mid-13th century. Noted in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos, vol. IV (p. 2428) as a font of the 13th century: "Del primitivo templo tan sólo se conserva en el baptisterio, a los pies de la iglesia, la pila bautismal. La pieza tiene unas dimensiones de 116 cm de diámetro y 100 cm de altura. Realizada en piedra caliza, consta de una copa semiesférica gallonada en el interior que se remata en el borde con un pequeño bocel. La decoración exterior está compuesta por arpías afrontadas –con y sin caperuza–, leones, grifos, aves, dragones y centauros sagitarios, engarzados entre motivos vegetales. El pie sobre el que se apoya es semicircular con decoración vegetal y la basa escuadrangular. Es una pieza tardía que cronológicamente debemos ubicar en la primera mitad del siglo XIII." In the entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 22 March 2023], however, the font is described as Renaissance: "La pila es renacentista con relieves de animales, avenerada". The rim of the basin has eight lobes which continue towards the inside; outer sides show monstruous animals face to face amid fruit laden vines: a male centaur; a female centaur, bow and quiver pointing her arrow at a bird; two male sirens part bird, part reptile; two dragons chewing on bunches of grapes; another dragon; another such; two more bird-sirens; a gazelle-like animal with two legs and the tail of a reptile; a lion; a griffin; the cylindrical base has four half-columns attached [constructional?], false capitals made up of trefoils; the square lower base has convex mouldings. On-line notes: old iron staples from the cover still evident in the upper rim; major damage to one of the sides of the font affecting the iconographical program; the inner basin well is octafoiled, which, together with some of the motifs on the outer basin sides, brings the font rather into the Gothic period. No cover present but the upper rim of the basin has metal staples from on old cover system.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.0266, -3.7583

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 1′ 35.76″ N, 3° 45′ 29.88″ W

UTM: 30T 437225 4653008

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octafoiled

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8-12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 94-99 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 115 cm* / 115.5 cm** / 115 cm***

Basin Depth: 55 cm*

Basin Total Height: 56 cm*

Height of Base: 44 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* / 102 cm** / ***

Square Base Dimensions: 67 x 67 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 282) / *** Enciclopedia del Románico

LID INFORMATION

Notes: iron staples from the old cover still in the rim

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974

Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009