Quintanilla del Coco No. 1 / Coco et Quintaniella

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - quatrefoiled - in a circle - 12

Scene Description: three on each side of square lower base

design element - motifs - groove

Scene Description: all around the upper surface

design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: one at each corner

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: notice the stump of a metal staple in the upper surface of the rim; it would have been an anchoring spot for an old font cover

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: all around the top of the lower base

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches

Scene Description: large and expertly executed

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

design element - patterns - ribbed

information

Scene Description: plaque posted outside the parish church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Miguel_de_Quintanilla_del_Coco_02.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2020]

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Hovallef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Miguel_Arcángel_en_Quintanilla_del_Coco_lateral.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: the present portal at the west end of the south side may not be the original access, and substituted the earlier one now blocked

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Miguel_de_Quintanilla_del_Coco_09.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Hovallef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Miguel_Arcángel_en_Quintanilla_del_Coco_testero.jpg] [accessed 21 July 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: notice the base of the altar: a former font unearthed from the cemetery and re-used as central support for the altar stone

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 July 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00659QUI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Calle Plaza, 2, 09348 Quintanilla del Coco, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the BU-900, 8 km W of Silos, 26 km ESE of Lerma, 50-55 km SSE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza

Font Location in Church: Iinside the church, at the E end of the S aisle

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

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

Church Notes: medieval church 12th-13thC; modified 13th-17thC -- there may have been two medieval churches in the past in two separate hamlets, Coco and Quintanilla, which may account for the two fonts found here now

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Described in Bilbao (1996). Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), with date ca. 1200. The entry for this village in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_QUINTANILLA_DEL_COCO.pdf] [accessed 30 March 2023] notes that there were two separate hamlets here in the late-12th century, but the two had been merged into one by 1433: "El día 10 de junio del año 1187, Alfonso VIII da a Silos la villa de Congosto, situada inter Castrum Ceniza et Coco et Quintaniella, lo que indica que había dos núcleos de población independientes. En 1433, en un intercambio de pueblos realizado entre las abadías de Silos y Arlanza, aparece citado con su nombre actual lo que indica que Coco ya debía estar despoblado". The Enciclopedia del románico (ibid.) further notes that the present Gothic church replaced and was built with materials from an earlier in Coco dedicated to San Andres, as well as those from the earlier church in Quintanilla del Coco itself. This same source (ibid.) notes the two medieval fonts in this church now, the original one still being used as baptismal font, and a second one that serves now as base to the altar stone: "En el templo parroquial actual se conservan dos pilas bautismales románicas: una del propio templo y otra desenterrada hace algunos años en el cementerio. La primera (99 cm de diámetro × 86 cm de altura) decora su copa con una gruesa cenefa de zarcillos con frutos y hojas, además de los habituales gallones. La peana presenta garras en lo ángulos y dos tallos entrelazados que encierran cuatripétalas. La otra, que sirve actualmente de soporte a la mesa de altar, es gallonada y se remata con un entrela-zo que alberga cuatripétalas con el centro perforado a trépano." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 30 April 2023] notes two Romanesque fonts in the present church as well: "La pila es románica con gallones y cenefa decorada […] Tiene otra pila románica también con gallones y cenefa decorada que sirve de pie de altar." One of two fonts in this church [cf. ChurchNotes], this one is the font originally belonging to it; roughly hemispherical basin decorated with the typical programme of fonts in this area: fruit-bearing acanthus vine below a roll moulding at the upper rim; broad ribs on the underbowl; round to square base with moulding in the centre and leaves at the angles; the sides of the square volume has quatrefoiled floral motifs inscribed in circles. No cover present but there are remains of metal staples from an old cover anchorings still in the upper rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.978489, -3.517928

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 58′ 42.56″ N, 3° 31′ 4.54″ W

UTM: 30T 457092 4647518

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm* / **

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 289) / ** 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