Sotresgudo / Soto segudo / Sotosesgudo

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

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animal - unidentified - head

Scene Description: one of four; one source describes it as a ball motif; another as an animal head -- this one is definitely an animal head

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

design element - motifs - hoop - with nail-head

Scene Description: a band of, all aroumd, simulating a metal cinch holding the wooden staves in place

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SOTRESGUDO.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2021]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: one of four; one source describes it as a ball motif; another as an animal head

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: one of four; one source describes it as a ball motif; another as an animal head

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

design element - patterns - ribbed

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a metal plug for the anchoring of the cover and the damage caused to the upper rim; there is similar damage also at the opposite side of the basin

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a metal plug for the anchoring of the cover and the damage caused to the upper rim; there is similar damage also at the opposite side of the basin

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the drain hole

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of church exterior - south porch - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel. Sotresgudo. Atrio."

Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotresgudo-iglesia-de-san-miguel-junio-2014-5.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel. Sotresgudo. Portada románica."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 8 June 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotresgudo-iglesia-de-san-miguel-junio-2014-2.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel. Sotresgudo. Detalle de la portada románica."

Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotresgudo-iglesia-de-san-miguel-junio-2014-3.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Iglesia de San Miguel Arcángel. Sotresgudo."

Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2014 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sotresgudo-iglesia-de-san-miguel-junio-2014-1.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - altar and retable

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of church interior - looking east

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the baptistery is located beneath the west gallery

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of font

Scene Description: showing damage to the rim at the front and back

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of font - east side

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: the font in its location beneath the west gallery

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 July 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00700SOT

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel Arcángel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Plaza Mayor, 1, 09135 Sotresgudo, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 20 84 40

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the C627-BU610, 15-16 km WNW of Villadiego, 50-55 km WNW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Merindad de Villadiego / Alfoz de Amaya

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

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: of the original Romanesque church only the south portal remains; present church 16thC church; modified 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period [cf. infra]. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_SOTRESGUDO.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023] as a baptismal font of the early Gothic period [cf. supra]; the hemispherical basin has ribbed pattern all around, with carved band simulating an iron brace studded with nails towards its middle, as if the basin were made of wood staves held by a metal hoop; the four angles of the lower base are decorated with ball motifs [="En el interior, a los pies de la nave, se conserva una pila bautismal de 137 cm de diámetro × 87 de altura, formada por una basa decorada con bolas en las esquinas y una copa gallonada abrazada a media altura por una cenefa con puntas de clavo. La labra a trinchante que presenta la pieza evidencia una factura tardía, de progenie ya gótica." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 31 July 2021] notes: "iglesia, dedicada a San Miguel Arcángel, renacentista [...] La portada esrománica, con arco de medio punto [...] La pila es románica, de vaso, con avenerados exteriores y anillo y base cuadrada con cabezas". [NB: Bilbao (ibid.) actually identifies the lower base objects as animal heads, and she is right at least in one case of the four; it is hard to say what the others are, resembling rather the magnification of an insect's eye ball -- Nebreda Perdiguero [cf. supra] describes the motifs simply as heads [="cabezas"]]. There is no cover present but the metal staples for an older cover have split the stone of the upper rim at both ends.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.578964, -4.177808

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 34′ 44.27″ N, 4° 10′ 40.11″ W

UTM: 30T 403345 4714733

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): 136 cm* / 137 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** 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

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-