Palacios de la Sierra No. 1 / Palaçios de la Sierra

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns - columns with capitals - 20

Scene Description: there are five arches on each side; the capitals are still discernible here and there, but the lower end is too worn to know whether the columns had bases or not

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - braid - 3-strand

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: norice the damage to the upper rim here, caused undoubtedly by a metal anchoring of an old cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - torsade

Scene Description: partially visible here above the two roll mouldings

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of base

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph in WikiBurgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Archivo:Palacios_de_la_sierra05.jpg] [accessible 18 January 2021]

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view of church interior - ceiling - boss

Scene Description: perhaps two bosses from the original 13thC church here

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - north aisle - chapel

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view of church interior - pulpit - detail

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the upper rim with two metal anchorings and the damage caused by an earlier one

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00632PAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Eulalia

Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida

Church Location: Calle Santa. María, 0, 09680 Palacios de la Sierra, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of roads BU-V-8229, BU-V-8222 and CL-117, about 15 km ESE of Salas de los Infantes, 70-75 km SE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de La Demanda y Pinares

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

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, 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: early-13thC(?) church re-built late-16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996). Valle Barreda (2009) as the Romanesque font from the earlier church; he gives the fonts at Moncalvillo, Palacios de la Sierra and Terrazas as stylistic cognates; also the fonts at Castrillo de la Reina, Eterna and Fresneda de la Sierra. Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin is ornamented with a vine bearing fruit, ribbed pattern and horizontal braid; the round base has torsade pattern; the square lower base has arch motif on all sides. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_PALACIOS_DE_LA_SIERRA.pdf] [accessed 28 March 2023]: "Guarda el edificio en el baptisterio habilitado al fondo de la nave meridional un magnífico ejemplar de pila bautismal, de copa semiesférica ornada con los más extendidos motivos de este área serrana: bocel en la embocadura, banda de perlado tallo ondulante en cuyos meandros se alojan brotes carnosos y piñas, banda con una greca de entrelazo y prominentes gallones. Se alza sobre un pilar cilíndrico entorchado y basa ática de toro inferior ornado con semibezantes y plinto cúbico con ornamental arquería de medio punto incisa. La copa mide 118 cm de diámetro × 64 de altura y el tenante y basa 42 cm de altura. Se emparenta con los ejemplares de Fresneda de la Sierra, Eterna, Castrillo de la Reina, Terrazas o los riojanos de Santurde de Rioja, Viniegra de Abajo, etc., debiendo datar de los años finales del siglo XII o primeros del XIII. Recientemente fue en su mayor parte repicada para eliminar la pátina de la piedra." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] mentions two fonts in its church: "La pila es románica, con cenefa decorada y gallones y pie cilíndrico con molduras. (Hay otra con racimos de uvas)." [cf. BSI entry for Palacios de la Sierra No. 2 for the other medieval font in this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 488952 4646084

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispherical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 118 cm* / **

Basin Total Height: 64 cm**

Height of Base: 42 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 109 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 286) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

REFERENCES

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

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