Ausines No. 3 / Los Ausines / Sopena de los Ausines / Sopeña de los Ausines

Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

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

Scene Description: the south side of the font -- the patterns on the columns and capitals quite varied in design

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: the south side of the font -- in the spandrels of the arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: the southeast side of the font -- below the arcade, all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the larger arch now on the west side of the font; was this a later re-cut?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: the southeast side of the font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - vegetal

Scene Description: the south side of the font -- in panel-form, inside the arcade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: the south side of the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all around the basin interior

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - interior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: on a metope

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María La Real, 2002

Image Source: Image source: photograph in Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-)

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Los Ausines-Barrio Sopeña (Burgos). Iglesia de San Miguel Portada"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Santiago Abella, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2014 by Santiago Abella [www.flickr.com/photos/75710752@N04/14601981557/in/photostream/] [accessed 30 May 2020]

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view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt

Scene Description: Source caption: "Los Ausines-Barrio Sopeña (Burgos). Iglesia de San Miguel. Portada. Arquivoltas"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Santiago Abella, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2014 by Santiago Abella [www.flickr.com/photos/75710752@N04/14601979857/in/photostream/] [accessed 30 May 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Los Ausines-Barrio Sopeña (Burgos). Iglesia de San Miguel"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Santiago Abella, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2014 by Santiago Abella [www.flickr.com/photos/75710752@N04/14601984787/in/photostream/] [accessed 30 May 2020]

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: showing the location of the medieval font on the left [north] side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - detail

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: altered piscina?

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: viewed form the west side of the chancel arch

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view of church interior - retable

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view of church interior - sculpture - fragment

Scene Description: probably from the original church here

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view of church interior - stairs

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view of font - east side

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view of font - south side

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view of font - south side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - south side

Scene Description: showing the concave ribs on the inside of the basin

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: showing the one larger arch and the odd foliated motifs

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context - south side

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view of font in context - southwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00697SOP
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Sopeña, 09194 Los Ausines, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the N-234, 17 km SSE of Burgos capital.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Alfoz de Lara / Ribera del Duero
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, semi-embedded in the wall
Century and Period: 12th century (mid? / late?), Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at nearby Quintanilla de los Ausines and perhaps the one at Cascajares de la Sierra
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-, vol. 12: 750) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_LOS_AUSINES.pdf] [accessed 5 April 2023]: "Alojada en un pequeño retalle abierto a los pies del muro sur del templo se halla una pila bautismal. Sobre un pedestal circular de 25 cm de altura se alza una copa troncocónica (112 cm de diámetro × 98 cm de altura) cuya superficie aparece totalmente cubierta por una composición decorativa muy similar a la del Barrio de Quintanilla o a la de Cascajares de la Sierra, es decir, por arcos de medio punto sobre columnas con capiteles vegetales estilizados y fustes decorados con sencillas hojas planas. Este motivo en concreto es idéntico al representado en las extrañas piezas verticales que aparecen bajo cada uno de sus arcos. Sobre la arquería corre una cenefa de estilizados roleos, con sencillas formas fitomórficas en sus extremidades, mientras que en la zona inferior de la copa encontramos formas vegetales que también aparecerán en las enjutas. Por su composición podemos considerarla de cronología románica, probablemente de la segunda mitad del siglo XII." Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009). The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 11 April March 2021] notes: "La iglesia dedicada a San Miguel, en el barrio de Sopeña, es gótica [...] La portada románica [...] la pila es románica, tipo vaso, con arcos de fustes con hojas y cenefa vegetal y base circular". The tub-shaped basin is rdecorated with concave rib pattern on the inside, an indication of a Transitional or early-Gothic period work; the outer side has a stylised vine around the upper basin side; below, an arcade of round arches supported on full columns with capitals and bases; inside the arches, panels of vegetal motif; the spandrels of the arcade have vegetal motifs as well; foliage fills the space between the bottom of the arcade and the base; typical round squat base found in this area, this one decorated with a round moulding. [NB: this font is indeed similar to the one in nearby Quintanilla de los Ausines, in the samer village [cf. BSI entry], but it is a more refined work]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 450692 4674993

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm* / 112 cm**
Height of Base: 25 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* / 98 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; r["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-
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009