Mecerreyes / Mecerese / Mecerrex / Mezerese / Mezerrex

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

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design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: several; in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Caption on the original full-size photograph: "Vista panorámica de Mecerreyes en la provincia de Burgos (España)" [NB: the original image has been cropped to highlight the position of the parish church

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2006 by Domingo Vicario [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mecerreyes.jpg] [accessed 29 December 2018]

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

Scene Description: the old font in the baptistery at the far end; a later holy-water stoup stands on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

Scene Description: the old font in the baptistery at the far end; a later holy-water stoup stands on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2018 by Pedro Lozano

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2018)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00614MEC

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín de Tours [aka San Martín Obispo] [may be originally from the Ermita de la Virgen del Camino]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Calle de la Igllesia 34, 09346 Mecerreyes, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-901, N of Covarrubias, 33 km S of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza / Alfoz de Lara

Font Location in Church: Inside the later parish church, at the W end, S side

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta, for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: present church mid-16thC; modified mid-17thC -- the original medieval church here is now a rural chapel, the Ermita de la Virgen del Camino

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Described in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009) with suggested date in the mid-12th century. Baptismal font of the late-Romanesque period; the basin is ornamented with an arcade with varied motifs in the spandrels; above, a band with beaded-tape and rope motif ornamentation; the base is decorated with round arches; there is large areas of damage at opposite sides of the basin, with considerable loss of stone; there are two metal staples still inserted in the upper rim. No cover present. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_MECERREYES.pdf] [accessed 23 March 2023] a number of cognate fonts to this one: "pila bautismal con copa semiesférica, emplazada en una pequeña estancia a los pies de la nave, en el lado de la epístola. Tiene un diámetro de 113 cm y una altura de 74 cm. El borde superior de la copa está recorrido por un sogueado bajo el que discurre una cenefa perlada. El resto de la superficie se decora con una secuencia de arcos de medio punto, con irregulares y poco profundos orificios de trépano en los mismos y formas vegetales muy esquemáticas en las enjutas. La basa, oculta por el realce del suelo, estaba también decorada por arcos de medio punto. Esta pila guarda gran similitud con otras del entorno como Cojóbar, Villamayor de los Montes, Madrigal del Monte, Valdorros, Torradijo, Barriosuso (Retortillo), Palazuelos de Muñó, Ciadoncha y Zalduendo. Al mismo tipo, aunque con mayor decoración, pertenece la pila bautismal del cercano pueblo de Mazariegos (hoy en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional), con la inscripción: [...]DE MCXC[.][.] / PET(r)US ME FECIT. La datación, según el cómputo de la era hispánica, corresponde a la segunda mitad del siglo XII, cronología que puede establecerse también para el resto de pilas de este grupo." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 23 March 2023] notes: "iglesia dedicada a San Martín, obispo. Es renacentista, de 1589, pero con cabecera gótica [...] La pila es románica, del siglo XII, con arcos de medio punto ciegos y doble cenefa y sogueado, sin pie, y base circular". Damage visible at opposite ends of the upper rim, probably related to old cover staples. The medieval parish church may have become a 'ermita' [chapel] when the larger church was built here in the mid-16th century; the medieval font is therefore likely to have belonged originally to the older church; the old chapel was demolished in the 1960s, but re-built on another site further from the village centre in 2006.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42º 5' 46.43'' N, 3º 34' 19.83'' W

UTM: 30T 452566 4660514

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cauldron (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 113 cm* / **

Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm* / 74 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 283) / ** Enciclopedia del Románico

LID INFORMATION

Notes: anchorage areas provided on the upper rim; damage resulting

REFERENCES

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

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-

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