Terradillos de Esgueva / Terratellos

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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design element - patterns - reticular

Scene Description: may have covered the whole of the basin sides originally [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of basin

Scene Description: the basin was obviously in much better shape ca. 1996, when this photograph was taken

Image Source: digital scan of a B&W photograph in Bilbao López (1996)

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the original drain may have been cemented over

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of basin - northwest side

Scene Description: showing the deterioration of the stone and loss of carving detail now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2011 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TerradillosDeEsgueva20110909105020P1130351.jpg] [accessed 25 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font in context

Scene Description: by the steps leading up to the west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2016 by Mikel Unanue

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00704TER

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Andrés

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 09350 Terradillos de Esgueva, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-113, NNW of Aranda de Duero 65 km SSW of Burgos capital. Follow Burgos-Madrid to Guimara; here a right to Cabañes de Esgueva; here a right again

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de la Ribera del Duero

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his information on, and photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church 12th-13thC; modified 16thC; present tower added 18thC; church restored 1984

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Guerra (1986 c1978) as an immersion baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996), who mentions a reticular pattern, with the rope details perfectly reproduced. Noted in Valle Barreda (2009), who dates it as late-Romanesque and mentions much-eroded intersecting arches. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TERRADILLOS_DE_ESGUEVA.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023] notes a late-Romanesque font beneath the west gallery: "Bajo el coro instalado a los pies se conserva una pila bautismal tardorrománica (de 111 cm de diámetro por 90 cm de altura); apoya sobre una basa circular baquetonada mientras la copa semiesférica aparece ornada con erosionados cordones entrecruzados." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023] notes: "La pila es románica, de escasa altura, con sogueado". The details of the reticular pattern were in much better shape at the time of Bilbao's visit [ca. 1996], as is discernible in the illustration in her book. The stone of the basin is now [2016] badly deteriorated and has lost much of the carving detail; according to an unnamed local source the font may have been treated with some chemical in the past; the inner well may have had a centre drain originally; if it did it is now cemented over. The roughly hemispherical basin is raised on a round pedestal base decorated with a single roll moulding. No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 430006 4630042

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

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

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / **

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 294) / ** 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

Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978

Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009