Pinilla de los Moros / Penella de Barbatello (Burgos)

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

Results: 26 records

animal - mammal - lion - head - vine stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: the vine extends left and right all around the basin until the section that is partly built into the back wall; it is possible that there may be a similar head in the hidden area

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

animal - mammal - lion - head - vine stemming from its mouth - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

animal - mammal - lion - head - vine stemming from its mouth - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

animal - mammal - lion - head - vine stemming from its mouth - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: all around the upper rim but eroded and damaged in some areas

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - varied - 4

Scene Description: two of them, very eroded, are visble here, at the two corners; the left appears to be a ball motif; the right may ne a knob or a defaced head or mask

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - vine - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - vine - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - vine - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - vine - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - vine - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - motifs - vine - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - patterns - ribbed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: zig-zag motif is carved on the upper surface, discernible here just above the roll moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the central drain hole, the area of the basin partly built into the back wall and the metal staple in the upper rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the area of the basin partly built into the back wall and the metal staple in the upper rim

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the area of the basin partly built into the back wall and the metal staple in the upper rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: Iglesia de Pinilla de los Moros"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Estevoaei, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Estevoaei [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinilla_de_los_Moros_igrexa.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trastolillo, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Trastolillo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Román_Mártir.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: visble at the far [west] end, right [north] side, is the narrow locked space containing the baptismal font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of font

Scene Description: the baptismal font in the narrow space at the west end of the nave

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of font

Scene Description: [NB: we have no information on the stone object in the bottom-left corner of the image

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph January 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 January 2022)

view of object

Scene Description: Source caption: " Fuente con escultura en Pinilla de los Moros" -- it looks like a real font incorporated to the village fountain but the inner basin does not

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Estevoaei, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Estevoaei [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinilla_de_los_Moros_escultura_fonte.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of object in context

Scene Description: Source caption: " Fuente con escultura en Pinilla de los Moros"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Estevoaei, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2019 by Estevoaei [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinilla_de_los_Moros_escultura_fonte.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00647PIN
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Román Mártir
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus
Church Location: c/ La Iglesia, 09613 Pinilla de los Moros, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the B-V-4205, N of ythe N-234, 10 km NW of Salas de los Infantes, 33 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, in a niche or alcove, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Described in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009). The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_PINILLA_DE_LOS_MOROS.pdf] [accessed 29 March 2023] reads: "El único resto románico es la pila bautismal, una pieza de arenisca en forma de copa, con una altura de 95 cm y un diámetro de 84 cm. El hemisférico vaso se decora con una cenefa superior recorrida por un tosco zarcillo que es vomitado por una cabecita de león, bajo la cual se halla la habitual articulación a base de gallones. Tiene pie cilíndrico y basa cuadrada r ecorrida por un toro circular con decoración de arquillos." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 19 January 2022] notes: "iglesia dedicada a San Román, mártir, renacentista tardío [...] La pila, buena, es románica con cenefa vegetal, gallones, pie circular y base cuadrada con molduras". Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the round basin has a band on which an acanthus vine stems from the mouth of a lion head; ribbed pattern below; round-to-square lower base, roll moulding atop, round arch-heads on the sides of the square lower volume. Metal staples from the old cover remain in the upper rim. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.068047, -3.328118
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 4′ 4.97″ N, 3° 19′ 41.23″ W
UTM: 30T 472855 4657384

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm* / 84 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm* / 95 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 287) / ** 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