Riba de Valdelucio / La Riba de Valdelucio
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: all around below the decorated partition 2/3 down the basin sides
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Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: described in the Enciclopedia... as a band of four-petal rosettes [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the semi-buried lower base of the font
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Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: the upper ones are clearly concave
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Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of base in context
Scene Description: a view of the semi-buried lower base taken from above
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Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR
view of church exterior - portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR
view of church interior - chancel arch and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2021)
view of font - south side
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Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in a niche, north side of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00675RIB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Calle Iglesia 19, 09127 Riba de Valdelucio, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-621, in the Valle de Valdelucio municipality, 28 km from Villadiego, 70-75 km NW of Burgos
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Las Loras / Alfoz de Panizares / Merindad de Villadiego
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche on the N side
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico. We are also grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_LA_RIBA_DE_VALDELUCIO.pdf] [accessed 30 March 2023] as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the bucket-shaped basin has a band of four-petal rosettes ornamenting the centre part; above and below it, a blind arcade of round arches; on a negligeable base, almost invisible now as it is semi-buried in the stone flooring; probably an early-12th century date: "En un pequeño habitáculo abierto en el lado del evangelio se conserva una pila bautismal, también románica, de 107 cm de diámetro y 76 cm de altura. Es de forma troncocónica y está decorada con una doble arquería separadapor una línea de cuatripétalas. Puede datarse hacia princi-pios del siglo XII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2021] notes: "La Asunción de Nuestra Señora de la titular de su iglesia, de una nave, con cabecera tipo románico [...] La portada es románica, apuntada [...] La pila es románica, de vaso, con dos cuerpos que se corresponden en los grandes acanalados". No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42' 0.28" N, 4° 5' 7.29" W
UTM: 30T 411099 4728128
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 106 cm* / 107 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm* / 76 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** 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
Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-