Sotovellanos / Santo de Avellanos / Sotauellanos / Sotovellano / Sotum de Auellanos

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

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

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view of base

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

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view of base

Scene Description: showing the damaged and crudely repaired section of the underbowl above

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

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the drain hole in the centre

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

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: "Y es precisamente esta portada el único elemento que podemos considerar como románico –muy tardío–, situada a ras de muro y compuesta por arco de medio punto doblado, con chambrana de listel y chaflán, descansando en dobles pilastras con curiosas impostas de listel y doble bocel. No sabemos si alguno de los paramentos pudiera ser también del mismo momento, aunque parece bastante probable que lo sea el entorno de la portada, donde se ve la línea que remata en altura el viejo muro, aproximadamente 1,5 m por encima de la clave de la chambrana. Por el resto de la construcción se ven numerosos sillares reutilizados que sin duda pertenecen también a la vieja fábrica románica." [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SOTOVELLANOS.pdf] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora. Sotovellanos (Burgos - España). 2018."

Image Source: digital photograph 27 October 2018 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia-asuncion-nuestra-sennora-sotovellanos-2018-04.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora. Sotovellanos (Burgos - España). 2018."

Image Source: digital photograph 27 October 2018 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia-asuncion-nuestra-sennora-sotovellanos-2018-01.jpg] [accessed 27 July 2021]

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view of church interior - baptistery

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

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view of church interior - looking east

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

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view of church interior - looking west

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

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the large repair to the left side of the underbowl and the reinforcement wires around the upper section of the basin

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

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view of font

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

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view of font

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

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view of font in context

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

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view of font in context - upper view

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

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view of stoup

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

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view of stoup

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

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view of stoup - upper view

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

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view of stoup in context

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00699SOT

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial Nuestra Señora de la Asunción / Asunción de Nuestra Señora

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: Calle Real Sotovellanos, 09135 Sotovellanos, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off local road BU-627, 5 km from Herrera de Pisuerga (Palencia prov.), in the municipality and 9 km WNW of Sotresgudo, 22 km WNW of Villadiego, 62 km WNW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga / Cuadrilla de Cañizal, partido de Villadiego, Intendencia de Burgos, Castilla la Vieja

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery [sotocoro]

Century and Period: 14th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font. We are also grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico

Church Notes: earliest part (south portal) may be very late-Romanesque, re-used in the late-15th or early-16thC fabric; much modified 17thC;

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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period, although the base is noted as being of a later date. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SOTOVELLANOS.pdf] [accessed 27 July 2021] [accessed 27 July 2021] as a limestone baptismal font of the Gothic period, though the design of the basin harks back at Romanesque models; the hemispherical basin is ribbed inside and out all the way up to the rim; raised on an octagonal base: "la pila bautismal, de piedra caliza, en forma de copa, con una altura total de 94 cm y un diámetro de 111 cm. El vaso,decorado al exterior con gallones convexos y al interior, con gallones cóncavos, a modo de venera, mide tan sólo 37 cm de altura, una estilización muy sospechosa para considerar a esta pieza como románica, aunque Garbiñe Bilbao [cf. supra] la incluye dentro del repertorio de pilas románicas que estudia, considerando la posibilidad de que el pie sea posterior. Por nuestra parte creemos que ese pie es claramente gótico, y posiblemente pueda considerarse también del mismo momento al conjunto de la pila, aunque hemos de reconocer que parte de un modelo, tanto en la decoración exterior como en la interior, que surge en época románica y que se difunde ampliamente por toda la región. Incluso alguna pieza, como la cercana de Zarzosa de Riopisuerga, participa de esta misma decoración, aunque sobre un vaso más característicamente románico, como es el de forma troncocónica." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 27 July 2021] notes: "Sobre una loma, un tanto apartada del pueblo, está situada su iglesia, dedicada a la Asunción de Nuestra Señora, renacentista [...] La pila es románica, avenerada por dentro y por fuera, con pie bise-lado y base poligonal." As indicated in the Enciclopedia [cf. supra] the font has elements that suggest a later period, among which one could probably add the concave ribbing of the basin well. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.599297, -4.266358

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 35′ 57.47″ N, 4° 15′ 58.89″ W

UTM: 30T 396112 4717096

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 112 cm* / 111 cm**

Basin Total Height: 37 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 94.5 cm* / 94 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico

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-