Torrecilla del Monte / Torreciella del Monte
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2014
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 November 2014)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches - 12
Scene Description: they are individual arches, not linked into a proper arcade -- notice here the damage where the metal staples of the old cover split the stone
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - patterns - ribbed - with inserts
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church exterior - south portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church exterior - south portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church interior - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the old font at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141117040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the old font at the far [west] end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: facing the altar
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font - northeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font - southeast side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of stoup - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2014 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00712TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santiago Apóstol
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: c/ Iglesia, 09390 Torrecilla del Monte, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NNE of Lerma, off the N-1/ E5, 30 km S of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) and in Valle Barreda (2009). The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TORRECILLA_DEL_MONTE.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023] notes and illustrates an early-13th century font in it: "En el interior se conserva una pila bautismal de traza también románica, colocada a los pies de la nave sobre un doble basamento circular de sillería con arista abocelada. Consta de una copa de 110 cm de diámetro y 65 cm de altura, decorada con arcos de medio punto doblados." 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, muy deteriorada, con arcos incisos y base escalonada". Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the round tapering basin is decorated with a set of twelve round double arches, not a proper arcade; it rests on a two-step plinth via a short stem. The basin is much damaged, missing a large piece of stone where it split off at the metal staples of the old cover. There are two holy-water stoups inside the church; perhaps late-medieval?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 5' 41.68" N, 3° 41' 39.34" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: M/A
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 111 cm* / 110 cm*
Basin Total Height: 65 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 295) / ** 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
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009