Muergas / Morgas

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B03: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

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animal - mammal - lion - rampant

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design element - architectural - fortress

Scene Description: Fortress with three towers [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - floral - 3 small flowers form a pyramid shape

Scene Description: Three small flowers forming a pyramid [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08482] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60659] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6 petals

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symbol - Tree of life

Scene Description: Tree-like figure [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08482] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60659] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée

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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08482] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60659] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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symbol - tree - Tree of life

Scene Description: Tree-like figure [cf. FontNotes]

symbol - tree - Tree of life

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symbol - vegetation

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Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08481] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/65997] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Cosme y San Damián de Muergas. Vista trasera de la iglesia; destaca el ábside ochavado que se apea en potentes contrafuertes. Sobresale el cuerpo de campanas de la torre con seis vanos de medio punto"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 02565] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/50394] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Cosme y San Damián de Muergas. Vista exterior de la iglesia de fábrica de sillarejo; presenta un atrio con dos arcos de medio punto para el ingreso"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 02564] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/50393] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08481] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/65997] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00626MUE

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cosme y San Damián

Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian

Church Location: c/ Real, 15, 09215 Muergas, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located in the Burgos insert in Alava ("county" of Treviño) off the BU-7462, 22-23 km SW of Vitoria, 95-100 of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Condado de Treviño

Font Location in Church: Against the wall, on the N side; one of its twelve sides is actually embeded in the wall itself

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/65997] [accessed 1 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Cosme y San Damián de Muergas en el Condado de Treviño. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal gótica. La copa está decorada con palmetas lanceoladas, cruz griega, motivos heráldicos, castillos y leones; la basa y el pie son cilíndricos". Described in Bilbao (1994) and (1996): dodecagonal basin, one of the sides invisible because it is embedded in the wall; other sides have ornamentation: flower with six petals, three smaller flowers forming a pyramid, large fleur-de-lis, another such, a cross, a tree-like figure, another such, a rampant lion, a fortress with three towers, vegetal motif, another such. Plain base. [NB: Bilbao describes the font as Gothic in one of her works (1994: 126) but includes it as well in her book (1996) on Romanesque works]. No entry found for Muergas in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/]. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 27 March 2023] reports a Gothic font in its church: "La pila es gótica, tipo vaso, con decoración y pie cilíndrico liso y basa también cilíndrica".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 4730542 515873

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 101 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 285)

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968

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

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994