Rosales
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2020)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mariano Sebastian Moreno, 2009
Image Source: drawing made in 2003 by Mariano Sebastian Moreno [www.sebasplumillasromanico.net]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission (e-mail of 10 June 2009)
design element - motifs - geometric
Scene Description: ball and lozenge/diamond on the outside; ball on the inside [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2020)
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - interlace - beaded-tape - 2
design element - patterns - ball-in-socket
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design element - motifs - floral - ball flower
animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with bow and arrow - rabbit or hare
design element - motifs - groove
design element - motifs - zigzag
design element - motifs - floral - flower - 5-petal - 8
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - decorated arches - columns with capitals and bases
design element - motifs - ball-in-socket
design element - patterns - chequered
animal - bird - eagle - on a pine tree - 2
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the font is visible in a northeast corner niche
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2020)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00678ROS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel
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]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: c/ Cañada Real, 5, 09512 Rosales, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
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 Notes:
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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".
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 464489 4754396
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.941373, -3.435259
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 56′ 28.94″ N, 3° 26′ 6.93″ W
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, p. 60, 99-100, 104-105, 119, 124, 131, 262, 291 and fig. 17, 46
- 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-, vol. 13: 1937-1938
- 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; p. 209
- Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978, p. 82 fn33
- Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974, p. 123