Villarcayo / Monasterio de Santa Maria de Rioseco / Rio Sequillo / Vileña de Bureba

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cleric - with staff in the right hand

Scene Description: abbot or bishop

Image Source: digital image in Cadiñanos Bardeci (2002: 79)

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (e-mail 26/5/2003)

design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: large ones, on the basin sides

Image Source: digital image in Cadiñanos Bardeci (2002: 79)

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (e-mail 26/5/2003)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image in Cadiñanos Bardeci (2002: 11)

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symbol - cross - processional cross

Scene Description: a large one on the basin side

view of church exterior - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: Ruins of the Cistercian Monastery of Santa María de Vileña, founded by Queen Urraca López de Haro in 1222

Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2012 by Maragm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vileña_ruinas_monasterio_5.JPG] [accessed 4 April 2023]

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view of church exterior and interior - ruins

Scene Description: Source caption: "Monasterio de Santa María de Rioseco."

Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2021 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MonasterioDeRioseco_6253084---_6253093.jpg] [accessed 4 April 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: Representación de Santa María de Rioseco antes de su desamortización

Image Source: digital photograph 5 February 2021 by JARAMILLANO [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Representación_de_Santa_María_de_Rioseco.jpg] [accessed 4 April 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: Maqueta boceto del Monasterio Cisterciense de Vileña en su última época, antes de su incendio y ruina, sobre el año 69, Los arcos del claustro para ser más exacta deberían estar ya tabicados/cerrados.

Image Source: digital photograph 17 October 2019 by JARAMILLANO [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maqueta_de_Vileña_en_su_última_época.jpg] [accessed 4 April 2023]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: Fresco of the Last Judgement Day early-13thC from the disappeared Cistercian Monastery of Santa María de Vileña, now in the Museo del Retablo, Burgos

Image Source: digital photograph 5 September 2012 by Maragm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vileña_Fresco_del_Juicio_Final_Principios_S.XIII.JPG] [accessed 4 April 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image in Cadiñanos Bardeci (2002: 11)

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (e-mail 26/5/2003)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00676RIO

Museum and Inventory Number: Monasterio Cisterciense de Vileña, in Villarcayo [ca. 1992 Museo del Monasterio de Santa Maria la Real]

Church/Chapel: [orig. from the now- disappeared Cistercian monastery at Rio Sequillo [cf. museum information)]

Church Location: BU-V-5741 & BU-V-5744, 09558, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 681 68 26 80

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Villarcayo is located 75 km N of Burgos capital -- the Monasterio is located off the BU-V-5744, 9 km SW of Villarcayo

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diócesis de Burgos]

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes for actual location]

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Inocencio Cadiñanos Bardeci and to L. Carlos García, of Villarcayo, Spain, for providing the images of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and partially illustrated in Bilbao (1996: fig. 96, p. 298 et al.) as a Romanesque baptismal font originally from the now-disappeared Cistercian monastery of Rio Sequillo; the basin has a large flower with six petals, a processional cross of the same size and another 6-petal flower; the base has a schematic figure [abbot? bishop?] carrying a staff in his right hand; the lower base is plain. This font appears illustrated in Cadiñanos Bardeci (2002: 11, 14, 79) where the name of the original church is given as Santa María de Rioseco [NB: according to this latter source, the font is now [ca. 2002] at the Monasterio Cisterciense de Vileña, in Villarcayo]. There is no mention of a font in the Enciclopedia del romanico entry for Villarcayo [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_VILLARCAYO.pdf] [accessed 4 April 2023]. The entry for Villarcayo in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 4 Appril 2023] gives the particulars of the buildings involved but does not mention the font at all.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.893611, -3.633333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 53′ 37″ N, 3° 38′ 0″ W

UTM: 30T 4749195 448289

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm

Notes on Measurements: Bilbao (1996: 298)

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Cadiñanos Bardeci, Inocencio, Monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Rioseco, Valle de Manzanedo-Villarcayo: historia y cartulario, Villarcayo, Burgos: Asociación de Amigos de Villarcayo, 2002