Tolbanos de Abajo / Tolbanios / Tolbaños de Abajo / Tolvanios

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes] -- the image is somewhat obscured by the metal band around the basin sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - arch-head or scallop

Scene Description: lightly incised on the lower side, all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: several of them on the top, alternating with leaf motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

Scene Description: a clumsy example [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: several of them on the top, alternating with ball motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: an acanthus vine runs between them

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes] -- showing the central drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: notice the detached tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font

Scene Description: on a two-step plinth

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Antonio Daban

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 October 2013)

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Mikel Unanue for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 00708TOL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Quirico y Santa Julita

Church Patron Saints: St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] & St. Julitta

Church Location: 09614 Tolbaños de Abajo, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-8211, S of the BU-821, about 8 km ESE of Barbadillo del Pez, 15 km NW of Salas de los Infantes, 73 km from Burgos capital; in the municipality and near Valle de Valdelaguna

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Sierra de la Demanda / Castilla la Vieja -- Jurisdicción de Valdelaguna, partido de Aranda

Font Location in Church: Located at the W end of he nave, S side

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Antonio Daban Royo for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996) and in Valle Barreda (2009) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TOLBAÑOS_DE_ABAJO.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023] describes and illustrates its Romanesque font, a crude version of the common style in the Sierra [de la Demanda] region: "A los pies de la colateral, sobre basamento circular escalonado, se alza una pila bautismal románica acorde al tipo más extendido en el área de la Sierra, de copa aproximadamente semiesférica (109 cm de diámetro por 53 cm de altura), con interior avenerado, bocel en la embocadura, banda de toscos zarcillos, listel y mal definidos gallones inferiores. Se alza sobre un pilar cilíndrico de 32 cm de alto, ornado con una greca, y una amplia basa de 13 cm de altura, de gran toro aplastado con semicírculos incisos y decoración de hojitas y botones vegetales. Es un rudo remedo de las vistas en Palacios de la Sierra, Barbadillo deHerreros, etc." 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, buena, con cenefa vegetal en relieve y gallones, con pie cilíndrico y base circular". The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a broad band of vegetation between two parallel roll mouldings; the motifs is a well-executed acanthus vine that stems from the mouth of a mask, which is not easily identifiable as either human or animal; the underbowl has flat and broad ribs all around; the inner well of the basin is decorated with deep-groved concave ribbing and has a centre drain; the basin has a metal band all around and there are hook-ups on it for anchoring a font cover (not present); the basin is raised on a cylindrical pedestal base decorated with a poorly-executed two strand braid around it; the lower base is a round dome decorated with leaf and ball motifs around the top, and wide incised scallops on the sides. The font stands on a two-step plinth and is located inside the nave, near the south door and to the west of it. The font should be assigned to a later period [cf. supra][ on account of the flat ribs of the underbowl and the concave ribbing on the inside of the basin well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.1, -3.133333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 6′ 0″ N, 3° 8′ 0″ W

UTM: 30T 488975 4660888

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 107 cm* / 109 cm**

Basin Total Height: 53 cm**

Height of Base: 45 cm [calculated 32 cm** + 13 cm**]

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 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

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