Rosales

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animal - bird - eagle - on a pine tree - 2

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with bow and arrow - rabbit or hare

Scene Description: a centaur shooting a rabbit or hare [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - decorated arches - columns with capitals and bases

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design element - motifs - ball-in-socket

Scene Description: on the lower side of the bottom rim (side with the eight 5-petalled flowers)

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design element - motifs - floral - ball flower

Scene Description: on the arches of the arcade

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - interlace - beaded-tape - 2

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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 5-petal - 8

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design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: ball and lozenge/diamond on the outside; ball on the inside [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - groove

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: on the upper side of the bottom rim (side with the eight 5-petalled flowers)

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design element - patterns - ball-in-socket

Scene Description: below the interlaced floral motifs

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design element - patterns - chequered

Scene Description: below the resting eagles

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mariano Sebastian Moreno, 2009

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00678ROS
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: c/ Cañada Real, 5, 09512 Rosales, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-5512, 5 km NW of Medina de Pomar, 88 km from Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Partido de Villarcayo, Castilla la Vieja
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, by the altar, in a S side chapel [reported formerly as being in the sacristy]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mariano Sebastian Moreno, of www.sebasplumillasromanico.net for his drawing of this font, and to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this font
Listed in Guerra (1986 c1978) as an immersion baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996) and in the Enciclopedia del Romanico en Castilla y Leon (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_ROSALES.pdf] [accessed 4 April 2023] the slightly rectangular basin has a row of geometrical motifs (lozenge/diamond and round) at the outer chamfered upper rim, with another row of balls (?) on the inner chamfered upper rom; the sides of the basin have pairs of round arches, the arch-head double, plain on the outer, with ball/closed-flower motifs the inner side, the columnar supports with foliated capitals and moulded bases; on one of the sides of the basin a rampant (?) centaur in the left arch shoots an arrow at a rabbit or hare in the right; the next pair of arches to the right contains a pair of interlaced floral motifs; the following side has a pair of eagles (?) resting their claws on branches which resemble those of a pine tree with needles and pine-cones; the next side has a set of four flowers arranged in cross form in each arch; the lower side has a different pattern of decoration on each side: grooving, ball-in-socket, zigzag and beaded-tape. Raised on a short quadrangular modern base. García de Castro Valdés (2000) notes medieval quadrangular fonts in Spain at Beloncio, Bullaso, San Isidoro de Leon, Villanueva de Valdecarzana (suggested date in the 11th century); Armentia, Bustasur, Dosante, Gormaz, Quintanillabon, Rosales, Santillan del Agua, Soto de Bureba (suggested date in the 12th or 13th century); Ripodas and Turrillas (suggested date in the 13th century). The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 4 April 2023] notes: "La pila es románica, curiosa y buena, cuadrada, con decoración de bolas, figuras y lises atadas por lazos".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.941373, -3.435259
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 56′ 28.94″ N, 3° 26′ 6.93″ W
UTM: 30T 464489 4754396

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Basin Total Height: 62 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 77.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 88.5 x 98.5 cm* / 88 x 98 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del Romanico

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-
García de Castro Valdés, César, "Nuevas piezas de arqueología cristiana altomedieval en Asturias", 7 (2000), Revista de Arqueología del Área de Historia Medieval, 2000, pp. [201]-218; r["References"]
Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978
Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974