Quintanilla del Agua

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animal - bird

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 October 2014)

animal - bird - wings spread

Scene Description: a bird [eagle?] with open wings in the heraldic manner (hidden in the part of the of the basin that lies against and into the wall)

animal - mammal - horse

Scene Description: (hidden in the part of the basin that lies against and into the wall)

basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 May 1999 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Scene Description: formed by some of the plants and motifs on the side of the font

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - irregular arches

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 May 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 October 2014)

symbol - cross

Scene Description: a cross (hidden in the part of the basin that lies against and into the wall)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 October 2014)

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: showing two stork nests atop the belfry

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2018 by TurismoRuralArlanza [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Quintanilla_del_Agua.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of context

Scene Description: an object of possible interest now used as planter near the public fountain in Quintanilla del Agua village centre

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2018 by TurismoRuralArlanza [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Territorio_Artlanza.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 October 2014)

view of font

Scene Description: showing the part of the upper basin built into the right wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission recieved via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 12 October 2014)

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 May 1999 by BSI

view of object

Scene Description: is this object a former font? if so it might be the original font of the 11thC church here

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2018 by TurismoRuralArlanza [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Territorio_Artlanza.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00658QUI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María [aka Iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin / The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: c/ La Iglesia, 25, 09347, Quintanilla del Agua, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 174 714

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-904, 9 km E of Lerma, 15 km from Covarrubias and about 50 km from Burgos capital, on the banks of the Arlanza river

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

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

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his additional photographs of this font

Church Notes: 11th-12thC church; restored 19thC; [NB: the municipality source has Quintanilla's church as "Iglesia de la Natividad de Nuestra Señora", but it may be confusing it with Tordueles' own church, which has that name]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009). Noted in the Enciclopedia del Románico en Castilla y León. Burgos, vol. IV, p. 2682 [www.romanicodigital.com/cedar/pila-bautismal-9077.aspx] [accessed 26 July 2020] and [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_QUINTANILLA_DEL_AGUA.pdf] [accessed 30 March 2023]: "El único vestigio románico es la pila bautismal. De labra muy tosca, consta de una embocadura de bocel y se ornamenta con arcadas irregulares que cubren la copa con motivos vegetales y animales entre las enjutas. Sus dimensiones son: 105 cm de diámetro y 94 de altura." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 11 April March 2021] notes: "La pila es gótica con arcos imperfectos ycenefa vegetal y pie cilíndrico". Baptismal font of the late-Romanesque period; the hemispherical basin has foliage motifs with some animal details; the back of the basin has trefoiled floral or foliage motifs, a cross, a horse and a bird with open wings [cf. Author notes];unlike many of the fonts in the area, the one at Quintanilla del Agua does not have a well-defined band for the decorative vine, nor is there a real vine, but a collection of more-or-less related motifs; the same applies to the irregular arcade below: odd arches that encircle the lower part of the basin; some are shaped as fleur-de-lis. On a later-date base, round and moulded. On-site notes: iron staples from the old cover are still evident in the upper basin rim. An original work, if still within the decorative plan of the fonts of this area; 13th century? later? [NB: there is a stone object in the village square, now used as a decorative planter, that could at a stretch be worth looking at in detail; it is roughly cylindrical, the surface much worn and eroded; if it were a font, could it be the original of te11th-century church here?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 1' 59.22" N, 3° 39' 6.93" W

UTM: 30T 4654269 446017

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10-12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 84-86 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 107-109 cm* / 105 cm***

Basin Depth: 36 cm*

Basin Total Height: 54 cm*

Height of Base: 40 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm* / 67 cm** / 94 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 288) / *** Enciclopedia del románico

LID INFORMATION

Notes: iron staples of the old cover still in the upper basin rim

REFERENCES

Aguilar Romero, Rosalía, "Iconografía románica en el Valle del Esgueva", 8 (1993), Biblioteca, 1993, pp. 23-34.

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; r["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