Torrelara
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 January 2021)
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - double arch-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - floral
![seen here on the left -- notice also a metal stapleon the side, to the right; it may have been used to secure the lock of an olf cover [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210129012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: seen here on the left -- notice also a metal stapleon the side, to the right; it may have been used to secure the lock of an olf cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - quadrangular
Scene Description: a band of [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: part of the basin block; damaged now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torrelara, Iglesia de San Millán Abad"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malopez 21, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Malopez 21 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torrelara,_Iglesia_de_San_Millán_Abad,_06.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2021]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torrelara, Iglesia de San Millán Abad"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Malopez 21 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torrelara,_Iglesia_de_San_Millán_Abad,_05.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2021]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Torrelara, Iglesia de San Millán Abad"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malopez 21, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Malopez 21 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torrelara,_Iglesia_de_San_Millán_Abad,_07.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2021]
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of font
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font and stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font and stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 January 2021)
view of font and stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 January 2021)
view of font and stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph taken ca. 2020 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00714TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Millán Abad
Church Patron Saints: St. Aemilian of Cogolla [aka Aemilianus, Emiliaus, Millán de la Cogolla]
Church Location: c/ Iglesia, 23, 09645 Torrelara, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of the BU-P-8012 and the BU-V-8202, E of the N-234, 30 km SE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Alfoz de Lara
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side, just east of the S entranceway
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: present church 15th-16thC, possibly a re-building of an earlier church on the same site
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period [NB: Bilbao (ibid.) mentions fishbone' pattern on the upper sides of the basin, but it appears to be a combination of a rope motif at the top and a band of squares or rectangles directly below]. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TORRELARA.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023]: "pila bautismal, labrada en caliza blanca, con una altura de 87 cm y un diámetro de 125 cm. Sobre un corto pie cilíndrico se dispone el vaso, de tendencia hemisférica, con el hueco avenerado y con la cara exterior mostrando un sogueado recorriendo la embocadura, seguido por estrecho listel segmentado y después una serie de gallones convexos rematados en su parte superior por arquillos de medio punto, con una pequeña roseta ocupando una de las enjutas. Sigue pues un esquema decorativo que se repite con mucha frecuencia en las pilas de la provincia." 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, de vaso, con sogueado, arcos y gallones y base circular." The roughly hemispherical basin is ribbed inside and out; the outer ribs have double round arches superimposed; one of the spandrels shows a floral motif in it; the upper rim of the basin has a rope motif all around, below which is one row of square motifs all around; there is roll mouding at the bottom of the underbowl; the base is squat and round. There is one large nail on the side of the rim which was probably used to secure the font cover. No cover present. The concave ribbing on the sides of the inner basin suggest a later date than assigned in Bilbao [cf. supra]. There is also a wall-mounted holy-water of stone near the south entranceway.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.167722, -3.517847
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 10′ 3.8″ N, 3° 31′ 4.25″ W
UTM: 30T 457226 4668528
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 125 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm* / 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-