Santa Maria del Retortillo No. 2 / Santa María del Retortillo in Torrepadre
Results: 7 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: Elegant arcade with well-defined capitals and bases
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels of the arcade
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: somewhat worn now
design element - patterns - beaded-tape
Scene Description: all around, below the rim moulding
view of font and cover
Scene Description: when this photograph was taken [ca. 2000?] the font was raised in a round-to-square lower base decorated at the angles; this lower base is missing in the later [2012] photographs
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font is seen resting directly on the ground in 2012
INFORMATION
FontID: 00690MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Granja Retortillo, 1, 09345 Retortillo, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: 947186094
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-143 and the N-622, between the 'vegas' of the river Arlanza and the moors of El Cerrato, in the municipality of Torrepadre and NW of the latter, a few km SW of Mahamud, 10 km W of Lerma, 55-60 km from Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end (originally from a hermitage at Barriosuso)
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar to the font at Madrigalejo del Monte, also in Burgos prov.
Church Notes: 9-11thC Mudéjar church of Santa María de Retortillo from the former monastery of Santa María de Retortillo documented mid-11thC; the monastery farm ["granja"] maintained the monastic life in it until the 13thC when it is abandoned; secularised and sold in the 16thC; bought in 20thC by the Sánchez Junco family [founder and owner of HOLA magazine]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a blind arcade of round arches raised on columns with well-defined capitals and bases, a palmette in each spandrel; the basin rim is a rope moulding, somwhat worn now, and there is a band of beaded tape just below it; the round lower base is decorated with a double moulding. In earlier photographs the font appears raised on a second lower base, round at the top and square below, with a single ornament at each angle, but by 2012 the font appears resting directly on the ground, without the additional lower base. The wooden cover, round, flat and plain, is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 4' 29.64" N, 4° 1' 28.56" W
UTM: 30T 415331 4658451
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 72 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 292)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
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