Revenga de Muno / Revenga de Muñó

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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design element - motifs - rope

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover - northeast side

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view of font and cover - southeast side

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view of font and cover in context - southeast side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00671REV
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Román Abad
Church Patron Saints: St. Romanus
Church Location: c/ Subida Iglesia, 27, 09228 Revenga de Muñó, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality and 4 km from Villaverde del Monte, 10 km NW of Santa Maria del Campo, 34 km SE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; modified 18thC
Described in Bilbao (1996) as having a basin decorated with a crude arcade and rope moulding above it ["con tosca arquería y motivo cordado sobre ella"]; in an earlier mention of this same font, however, (ibid. p. 86), Bilbao refers to the this font as being one of several in which the treatment of architectural ornamentation is done with elegance and harmony ["grandes dosis de elegancia y armonía"] and describes the arcade in these as "arquerías de gran calidad." (ibid.). In Valle Barreda (2009). The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_REVENGA_DE_MUÑÓ.pdf] [accessed 30 March 2023] notes: "pila bautismal románica (128 cm de diámetro × 87 cm de altura) decorada con un sogueado en la embocadura y arcos de medio punto en el resto de la copa". The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 30 March 2023] notes: "La pila es románica, de vaso, con cordones en borde y arcos en relieve y base circular." The upper rim of the basin retains two metal staples for a cover lock. The font has some damage to the sides and the base has been repaired with dark cement. The workmanship could be described as competent at best, contrary to the terms used in Bilbao [cf. supra]. [NB: a possible sunken baptismal font is reported at the Comunero de Revenga, in a recently [ca. 1972] excavated necropolis -- cf. web site http://members.tripod.com/quintanardelasierra/delf.htm#10 for archaeological report and images]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.1594677, -3.862492
UTM: 30T 428655 4667717

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): 127 cm* / 128 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm* / 87 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 290) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; hinged in the centre; modern

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