Lerma No. 2

Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) who dates it to the early 13th century and locates in the Convento de Santa Teresa; the font is located in one of the chapels of the church, which is still open to the cult. Large basin crudely carved; the inside has concave ribbed pattern; the outer sides have all available space carved with a hexagonal motif, like a diaper or honeycomb; the short base is a cluster of constructional columns, a large one in the centre, four at 90-degree angles. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos, vol. IV [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_LERMA.pdf] [accessed 22 March 2023]: "en el lado de la epístola, se localiza la pila bautismal procedente de la iglesia de San Juan. La copa, que tiene 143 cm dediámetro, presenta en forma de concha en el interior rematándose con un bocel en la embocadura. Hacia el exterior se decora con una doble fila de toscos gallones imbricados. La basa sobre la que se apoya está formada por cuatro pequeños fustes. Sus formas la sitúan en una cronología tardía, posiblemente de la primera mitad del siglo XIII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 22 March 2023] reports a Romanesque font in this church: "La pila es románica con semigallones a matajunta y pie de columnas y ave-nerada por dentro." On-site notes: four staples of the cover are still in the upper rim; the basin is really hemispherical, but the protruding cells of the honeycomb may appear to make it multi-lobed on the outside; it looks more like the surface of an artichoke; the concave ribbing suggests a Gothic dating. No cover present but there are four metal staples in the upper rim from an old cover system. Not known where it originally came from.