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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns - columns with capitals
human figure - demi-figure
human figure - demi-figure - detail
human figure - head, face or mask
human figure - head, face or mask
human figure - head, face or mask - in context
view of basin
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view of basin - southeast side - detail
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view of basin in context
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: "Aproximadamente en el centro del muro meridional se abría una portada románica, hoy cegada, similar a la de Bardauri y compuesta de baquetonado arco de mediopunto, arquivolta moldurada con nacela ornada por rasuradas bolas y chambrana decorada con listel y tres hileras de gruesos billetes, decoración que se repite en las impostas que coronan las jambas. En la jamba izquierda del acceso se reutilizó un fragmento de estela romana decorada con hojitas en el borde, un árbol de tronco sogueado rematado por acorazonadas hojas de hiedra de cuyas estrechas ramas penden rosetas y una inscripción dentro de un hexágono alusiva a Lucio Valerio Capitonis. Otro fragmento de estela romana –rasurada utilizando el trin-chante– se dispuso a cierta altura en el mismo muro meri-dional, en el que también observamos otro epígrafemedieval, donde, en rudimentarios caracteres góticos, leemos AVE MA/RIA GRAC/IA PLEN/A." [...] El acceso se realiza actualmente a través de la moderna portada abierta en el hastial occidental." [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_PANCORBO.pdf [accessed 7 August 2021]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020
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view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior in context - west view
view of church interior - looking east
view of font and stoup in context
Scene Description: the font on the left, the [composite?] holy-water stoup on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 6 August 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00635PAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ermita [former parish church] del Cristo de Barrio
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Church Location: 09280 Pancorbo, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N-I [aka Carretera de Irun], 16 km WSW of Miranda de Ebro, 63 km NE of Burgos capital -- the ermita is located over 1 km NE of the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 4th - 13th century, Romanesque [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Another such reported by Bilbao (1996) in the church at Soto de Bureba, also in Burgos prov.
Church Notes: present 'ermita' may have been originally the parish church of the disappeared hamlet of Barrio; it was originally dedicated to St Mary; documented 1076 [cf. Enciclopedia...]; restored 1971;
Font Notes:
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Described in Vélez Chaurri (1984). Described in Bilbao (1996) as probably a former child's sarcophagus re-used as baptismal font; it is roughly of oblong shape with rounded edges, almost oval, and ornamented with a rough arcade, two masks ["caratulas"] and a human figure. It has neither base nor plinth. The same author mentions that three of the sides are ornamented with roughly-done heads. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) as a Romanesque baptismal font that was discovered in 1971 and is now [2002+] located at the west end of the nave, south side; it notes seven round arches, two of which contain human masks (one bearded, one clean-shaven), a third housing a human bust, all of which showing more the lack of skill of the carved than the antiquity of the work. The Enciclopdia… (ibid.) does not mention its possible original funerary function [="Durante la restauración de 1971 se descubrió una curiosa pila bautismal románica, hoy conservada junto al muro meridional, en el fondo de la nave. Labrada a hacha, su copa es rectangular, con los ángulos redondeados, siendo sus medidas 87 cm de longitud, 71 cm de anchura y 41 cm de altura. El frente se decora en tres de sus cuatro lados con una sucesión de siete arcos de medio punto, en tres de los cuales se cobijan dos máscaras humanas –una barbaday la otra imberbe– y una figura representada en busto en la que se advierten los brazos y los torpes pliegues paralelos de su ropaje. Su tosquísima talla, en reserva y en dos planos, parece no obstante signo más de impericia que de notable antigüedad"]; the Enciclopedia mentions also a sarcophagus of pre-Romanesque appearance [="En la capilla meridional se conserva un curioso sarcófago –de aspecto prerrománico– de 194 cm de longitud, 38 cm de anchura en los pies y cuya caja mide 46 cm de alto, con tapa curva de 21 cm de altura. Sobre la lauda, en sentido longitudinal, se grabó una hoy muy borrosa inscripción de la que sólo acertamos a transcribir ...N(o P)IVAXV... En la zona de los pies, y en sentido transversal, se grabó otro texto inscrito en un recuadro, absolutamente ilegible". The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 7 August 2021] notes "la ermita del Santo Cristo del Barrio" but mentions no font in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.642296, -3.096287
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 38' 32.3" N, 3° 5' 46.6" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: oblong (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oblong
Basin Exterior Shape: oblong
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Depth: 23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 44 cm* / 41 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 44 cm* / 41 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 72 x 89 cm* / 71 x 87 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** 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
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-
Vélez Chaurri, J., Románico en Miranda y su comarca, 1984