Santa Maria del Mercadillo / Santa Maria de Mercadillo / Santa María del Mercadillo

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

Results: 15 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horseshoe arches - 12 - columns with capitals and bases - patterned columns

Scene Description: the columns alternate between single torsade and double plain; the bases are stepped

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing both cover anchoring stales, the from one having split the stone, a common case of uneven material expansion rates

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of basin - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: showing the north entranceway in the nearby Ermita de la Virgen de la Vega, also in Santa María del Mercadillo

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hovallef, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of an 11 May 2009 digital photograph by Hovallef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ermita_Virgen_de_la_Vega_en_Sta._Mª_del_Mercadillo_portada.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Santa María de Mercadillo es un municipio de la comarca Ribera del Duero, en la provincia de Burgos."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hovallef, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of an 11 May 2009 digital photograph by Hovallef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Lorenzo_Mártir_en_Satan_María_del_Mercadillo_testero.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: a view of the nearby Ermita de la Virgen de la Vega, also in Santa María del Mercadillo

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hovallef, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of an 11 May 2009 digital photograph by Hovallef [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ermita_de_la_Virgen_de_la_Vega_en_Santa_María_del_Mercadillo_02.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Lorenzo en Santa María del Mercadillo"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B25es, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 May 2019 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Lorenzo_en_Santa_María_del_Mercadillo_09.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B25es, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 11 May 2019 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_María_del_Mercadillo_Burgos_15.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: one of two Gothic (14thC?) statues of the Madonna in this church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: one of two Gothic (14thC?) statues of the Madonna in this church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font stands by the south pillar of the chancel arch (seen here reight behind the font; the altar seen in the upper left corner is the main altar

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received form the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 16 April 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00688MAR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Lorenzo
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: c/ San Lorenzo, 10, 09353 Santa María del Mercadillo, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-9141 and the BU-V-9204 crossroads, E of the A-1/N-5, 25 km SE of Lerma, 25 NNE of Aranda de Duero, 78 km SSE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca Ribera del Duero
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, by the S pillar of the chancel arch
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: present church Baroque but the font is claimed as Romanesque, and there are two Madonna statues of the 14thC
Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; dodecagonal basin decorated with a blind arcade of twelve arches; the arches appear Mozarabic and the columns alternate between single torsade and double plain; the upper part of the base is octagonal and appears to be part of the same block as the basin, but the rest of it is modern concrete. Described and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), who mentions similarities between the fonts at Cilleruelo de Arriba, Pinilla-Trasmonte and Santa Maria de Mercadillo. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SANTA_MARÍA_DE_MERCADILLO.pdf] [accessed 5 April 2023] as a Romanesque font with a dodecagonal basin: "pila bautismal, de piedra caliza, de 61 cm de altura por 92 cm de diámetro y 9 cm de embocadura. Su vaso dodecagonal está decorado por doce arcos doblados de medio punto, con ligera forma de herradura, apoyando en ménsulas y éstas a su vez en columnas, alternando las dobles y lisas con las sencillas y helicoidales, siempre sobre unas basas escalonadas. Por su forma y decoración este ejemplar emparenta directamente con las pilas de Cilleruelo de Arriba y Pinilla-Trasmonte, aunque la ornamentación con arcos es mucho más frecuente, como podemos ver también en el cercano lugar de Espinosa de Cervera, donde se conservan dos piezas de muy distinto formato." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 17 April March 2021] notes: "su iglesia dedicada a San Lorenzo, mártir, y es barroca [...] La pila es románica, poligonal, con decoración de columnas y arcos de relieve y pie poligonal liso". No cover present now but the upper rim of the basin retains two metal staples for the anchoring of an earlier cover, one of which has split and damaged the stone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.859956, -3.559833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 51′ 35.84″ N, 3° 33′ 35.4″ W
UTM: 30T 453534 4634379

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 93 cm* / 92 cm**
Basin Total Height: 61 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 292) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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