Tordueles

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Results: 15 records

design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Scene Description: all around the rim, and vertical between the fat ribs

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 May 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - 6 ribs

Scene Description: or lobes

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

design element - patterns - ribbed - large - 6 ribs

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 May 1999 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: notice the massive size of the lead plug supporting the staple

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of church interior - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of font

Scene Description: showing some of the damage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of font

Scene Description: showing some of the damage to the font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 May 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 January 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00709TOR
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María / La Natividad de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [earlier dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary]
Church Location: c/ Santamaria, 55, 09347 Tordueles, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the C-110, adjacent (NW) to Quintanilla del Agua, with which it forms a municipality; 12 km E of Lerma, 50 km from Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel at the W end
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: according to Madoz' Diccionario (1849) the church was dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary at the time
Described in Bilbao (1996: 294 et al.) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period with a hexagonal basin. 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, avernerada, con seis gallones, interior y exteriormente, con pie lobulado y base circular." On-site notes: the font is actually poly-lobed, with six lobes, rather than hexagonal; the lobes of the rim become very large ribs, all six of them, separated by the vertical mouldings; the base is also poly-lobed, again with six lobes; an iron staple from the old cover locking system is still evident in the rim; it has a massive lead plug! [NB: this shape of font is usually ascribed to the Gothic, rather than the Romanesque period; it is probably the reason why it is not included in the Enciclopedia del romanico].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 448311 4652271

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: poly-lobed (6 sides) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: poly-lobed (six sides)
Basin Exterior Shape: poly-lobed (6 sides)
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 3-7.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 66-69 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80-85 cm* / 84 cm**
Basin Depth: 35 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 15 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm* [55 + 26] / 83 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 294)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: iron loop from the old cover still on the rim

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996