Piedra / La Piedra / Petra
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Results: 25 records
Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon? - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon? - detail
Scene Description: this area of the base has been much damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon? - detail
Scene Description: Mounted knight armed with a lance (St George?, St Michael?) fights serpent that has a man trapped in its coils; the scene is at the back, against the wall and impossible to photograph properly, but this image shows the mounted knight from the back, the pointed shield discernible on the left side of the passant-to-the-left horse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - lion - fighting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 24 July 2013)
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - lion - fighting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - lion - fighting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - lion - fighting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - lion - fighting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
design element - patterns - chequered
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 June 1999 by BSI
design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: all around the inner basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
view of church exterior - apse - corbel
Scene Description: Source caption: "La Piedra (Burgos) - Ábside románico de la Iglesia de Santa María"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 August 2018 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Piedra_-_Iglesia_de_Santa_María,_ábside_5.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church exterior - apse - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "La Piedra (Burgos) - Ábside románico de la Iglesia de Santa María"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 August 2018 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Piedra_-_Iglesia_de_Santa_María,_ábside_6.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]
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view of church exterior - apse - southeast side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "La Piedra (Burgos) - Ábside románico de la Iglesia de Santa María"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 August 2018 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Piedra_-_Iglesia_de_Santa_María,_ábside_1.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]
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view of church exterior - apse - window
Scene Description: Source caption: "La Piedra (Burgos) - Ábside románico de la Iglesia de Santa María"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 August 2018 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Piedra_-_Iglesia_de_Santa_María,_ábside_4.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church exterior - apse - window
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Santa María, La Piedra (Burgos)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Guu, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2012 bu Guu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Piedra_3.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Santa María, La Piedra (Burgos)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Guu, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2012 bu Guu [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Piedra_2.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the font in the northwest corner, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: the font in the northwest corner, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 24 July 2013)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 June 1999 by BSI
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (email of 24 July 2013)
view of font in context - south side
Scene Description: the font in the northwest corner, beneath the gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph April 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 April 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00642PIE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: c./ la Iglesia, 25, 09125 La Piedra, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off local road BU-V-6013, W of the N-627, in the municipality and 9-10 km SE of Basconcillos del Tozo, 40 km NNW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Páramos / Alfoz de la Piedra / Cuadrilla del Tozo / Partido de Villadiego / Intendencia de Burgos / Castilla la Vieja
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?
Cognate Fonts: similar, though not identical, to the fonts at Bañuelos del Rudrón, Grijalba, Villegas, Villamayor de Treviño, Villasandino, Rebolledo de Traspeña y Los Valcárceres.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Juan Ramón Ugarte and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their photographs of this font
Described and partially illustrated in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin has ribbed-patterned surface inside and out. The base shows a lion and a serpent engaged in fight; the other side has a mounted knight attacking with his lance the body of a serpent whose tail has a man trapped in its coils [some areas are damaged]; underneath, a band of checkered pattern motif. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_LA_PIEDRA.pdf] [accessed 28 March 2023], which indicates similarities between the fonts at Bañuelos del Rudrón, Grijalba, Villegas, Villamayor de Treviño, La Piedra, Villasandino, Rebolledo de Traspeña y Los Valcárceres. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) notes that the linked-circles interlace pattern appears on the fonts at Boada de Villadiego, Villahizán de Treviño, La Piedra, Tagarrosa, Ordejón de Abajo and Sandoval de la Reina: "El elemento decorativo exento en Santa María es la pila bautismal, también románica, situada en el sotocoro, en el rincón del muro del evangelio. Con un diámetro de 118 cm y una altura de 100, se organiza en torno a una copa avenerada por las dos caras y un pie decorado con una escena de lucha entre un león y una serpiente, con la figura de un caballero en la parte posterior, sobre su montura, empuñando una lanza para arremeter contra el cuerpo de la serpiente, en cuya cola se encuentra atrapado un hombre. Bajo esta escena se dispone una banda de taqueado. Escenas muy parecidas aparecen en las pilas de Los Valcárceres, Arenillas de Muñó, Bañuelos del Rudrón, Grijalba, Villasandino, Villegas y Villamayor de Treviño". The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed March 2023] notes: "La pila es románica con arcos incisos, serpiente o dragones y pie ajedrezado circular, avenerada". On-site notes: old iron staples evident in the rim; the back of the base cannot be photographed without moving the font; the concave ribbing on the inside of the basin is probably an indication of a a later date into the Gothic period.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8-11 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 86-92 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 109-111 cm * 118 cm** / ***
Basin Depth: 40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Height of Base: 45 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 115 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 287) / *** Enciclopedia del románico
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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-