Pinilla de los Barruecos / Pinella

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

Results: 17 records

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

Scene Description: some of the coloumns, perhaps every other, were originally patterned with torsade, but most of the pattern has eroded away, except on the one here, by the right of the fracture

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of basin - insert - canopy

Scene Description: showing the extensive damage and the drain [NB: the location and type of damage suggests it was caused by the metal staples in the upper rim expanding and splitting the stone, a common occurrence in stone fonts]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Panorámica de Pinilla de los Barruecos"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Juan, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2012 by Jaime Juan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorámica_de_Pinilla_de_los_Barruecos.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the baptismal font is now placed by the right [south] pillar of the chancel arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible by the left [south] pillar of the chancel arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of church interior - retable

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: the font as it is now, 'perched' at the edge of the chancel -- the irregularity of the workmanship is evident here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font

Scene Description: this is the side of the font with less irregular work, but even here the shape of the basin shows its obvious off shape

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font - south west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font - southwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: showing the extensive damage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font was relocated to one of the two protruding sides flanking the stairs to the chancel; on a similar one on the north side is a large stone lectern

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font in context - north side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

view of font in context - northwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 31 December 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00648PIN
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Cristóbal
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: c/ Iglesia, 2, 09612 Pinilla de los Barruecos, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-9215, W of the N-234, 7-8 km S of Hacinas, 15 km S of Salas de los Infantes, about 65 km SSW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca Sierra de la Demanda / Alfoz de Lara / Merindad de Santo Domingo de Silos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the S pillar of the chancel arch
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_BARRUECOS.pdf] [accessed 29 March 2023] notes a baptismal font of Romanesque appearance: "en su interior, trasladada de su primitiva ubicación al fondo de la nave al lado de la epístola de la cabecera, se conserva un sencillo ejemplar de pila bautismal de traza románica, con su copa –de 92 cm de diámetro × 43 cm de altura– decorada con una arquería de arcos de medio punto sobre columnillas de capitel simplemente insinuado y, en el mi[s]mo bloque, pie troncocónico de 15 cm de altura." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 29 March 2023] notes: "La pila es románica con arcos en relieve y base circular". Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin is ornamented with a blind arcade of round arches supported on columns (some patterned) with capitals), all very irregular work; on a squat round moulded base; extensive damage to the basin. No font cover present but the damage to the upper areas of the font appears to have been caused by metal staples used to anchor an earlier cover.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 475122 4640567

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
Diameter (includes rim): 93 cm* / 92 cm**
Basin Total Height: 43 cm**
Height of Base: 15 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * 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
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009