Torres nr. Medina de Pomar / Torres de Medina
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design element - motifs - vine
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design element - patterns - honeycomb
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design element - patterns - ribbed - 17 ribs
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - 18 ribs
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: showing the damaged side of the base
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view of base and plinth
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing the large damage to it
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing the large damage to it
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing the large damage to it
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing the large damage to it
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing the large damage to it
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020
Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com]
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - northeast corner - detail
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font
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view of font and stoup in context
Scene Description: the font in the right corner, the stoup on the left, by the south entranceway
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view of font in context
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view of font in context
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view of stoup
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view of stoup
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view of stoup - upper view
Scene Description: no drain hole; the pair of drilled holes in the rim may suggest that they may have been made to anchor a cover in them; was this stoup used as a replacement font for a time?
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00715TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ermita de Nuestra Señora de las Torres [aka de la Peña?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Camino Torres, 09512 Medina de Pomar, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-551, E of the N-629, in the municipality and 2-3 km from Medina de Pomar town centre, 85 km NNE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de la Merindades / Junta de la Cerca, Merindad de Losa, Corregimiento de las Merindades, Castilla la Vieja
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side, beneath the gallery [sotocoro]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico. We are also grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TORRES_DE_MEDINA.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023]: baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the bucket-shaped basin is ribbed inside and out, externally with seventeen broad ribs, internally with eighteen concave ribs; the round base has a moulding below which runs a vine and, lower down a band of honeycomb pattern; it is raised on a round plinth. The basin is badly damaged and is missing almost a quarter of the basin side: "La pila bautismal es igualmente románica. Se encuentra situada a los pies del edificio, en el lado del evangelio y elevada sobre un escalón circular de 22 cm de altura. Es de piedra caliza y mide un total de 90 cm de alto por 87 de diámetro. La basa mide 20 cm y tiene la mitad inferior cilíndrica lisa y la mitad superior troncocónica, decorada por tres hileras de celdillas cuadradas talladas a bisel. La copa, a la que le falta un buen trozo, es troncocónica con un roleo perimetral en la parte inferior, sobre el que se alzan diecisiete gallones que alcanzan hasta la embocadura. El interior es avenerado, con dieciocho gajos. Por las características que hemos descrito consideramos que tanto la cabecera, como los restos escultóricos dispersos, como la pila bautismal, son obras de finales del siglo XII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023], however, describes the font as "renacentista con borde moldurado y pie cilíndrico". No cover present. An old stone holy-water stoup located by the south entranceway shows a pair of holes drilled in the rim, holes that are used on fonts to anchor a cover; was this stoup ever used as a replacement font?
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 461967 4754867
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 125 cm* / 90 cm**
Height of Base: 20 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm* / 87 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** 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
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-