Neila No. 2 / Naila / Nela

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: very stylised; scalloped pattern [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 February 2003 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: scalloped pattern -- notice the damage on the left side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - patterns - herringbone

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2006 by Gafotas [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neila.Iglesia_de_Santa_María.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2013]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2006 by Gafotas [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neila.Iglesia_de_Santa_María.Pórtico_lateral.jpg] [accessed 6 October 2013]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church interior - nave - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 February 2003 by David de la Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com]

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the stairwell on the left leads to the west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00628NEI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 09679 Neila, Burgos

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located on the BU-821, 10 km N of Quintanar de la Sierra, S of Villavelayo (La Rioja)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de La Demanda, partido judicial de Salas de los Infantes -- Alfoz de Lara

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: Somewhat similar to the other font in this village [cf. Index entry for Neila No. 1], and the fonts at Haciendas (Burgos prov.) and Lesma de la Cogolla (La Rioja)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font; we are also grateful to David de la Garma Ramírez, of wwww.arteguias.com, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996 ) as a second Romanesque baptismal font in this village. Lojendio (1985) was obviously not impressed with this font and simply mentions a primitive style font with square plinth. Described and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), as simpler than, but much in the style of, the font at the sister church of San Miguel, in the same village. It is noted and illustrated in Garma Ramírez [www.arteguias.com/burgos/neila-burgos.htm], with cognates also in Hacinas (Burgos prov.) and Ledesma de la Cogolla (La Rioja). Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a well-executed acanthus vine below a faint rim moulding; beaded line below; the underbowl has a number of bands [six? / seven?] of over-imposed leaves forming a scalloped pattern; broad centre ring moulding decorated with foliated pattern; the truncated-cone shaped base has a pattern of over-imposed stylised leaves forming a scalloped pattern redolent of the one on the underbowl above, but much more geometrical, practically triangular, with the tips in the opposite direction, downwards; the square lower base has saw-tooth motif on the upper surface, and fish-bone pattern on the sides. The decorative programme is somewhat related to the one on the font at San Miguel, in the same town; the major difference in the general work is that this font has the inner well of the basin patterned with concave ribbing. The damage to the side of basin may have been related to the metal staples of the old font cover. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_NEILA.pdf] [accessed 28 March 2023] [NB: cf. Index entry for Neila No. 1 for a somewhat similar font in the church of San Miguel]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 4656407 500253

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 101 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 103.5 cm

Notes on Measurements: * [Bilbao (1996: 285)]

REFERENCES

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

Lojendio, L. M., Castilla/2, 1985

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