Tortoles de Esgueva / Tórtoles de Esgueva
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 April 2021)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: seen here
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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information
Scene Description: view of the font and related information from the Enciclopedia del románico
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa Maria la Real, 2020
Image Source: edited image from the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TÓRTOLES_DE_ESGUEVA.pdf] [accessed 16 April 2021]
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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: in the damaged base
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: showing one of the Greek crosses on the base
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin
Scene Description: notice the large repair to the upper rim on the right
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim and the metal plug visible here between the two grooves of the upper rim surface; also, the flaw in the centre column of the arcade looks more like a flaw in the stone than a carver's mistake
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin in context - west side - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin in context - west side - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
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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 - looking west
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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 in context
Scene Description: beneath the west gallery
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view of font in context
Scene Description: benath the west gallery
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00716TOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban Protomártir
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Plaza Caudillo, 1, 09312 Tórtoles de Esgueva, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-140 and CL-619 crossroads, 8-9 km W of Torresandino, 40 SW of Lerma, 80-90 km SSW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Valle del Esgueva / Comarca de Ribera del Duero / Capitanía general de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the gallery
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; and to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of Romanesque period; the large hemispheric basin is ornamented with an arcade of round arches; the underbowl has ribbed pattern; the octagonal base has Greek cross motif inscribed in a circle. Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009). Listed in Sáinz Sáiz (1997). The font in the parish church is noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TÓRTOLES_DE_ESGUEVA.pdf] [accessed 16 April 2021]: "la pila bautismal de formas románicas, probablemente de los años finales del siglo XII, cuya copa se decora con arcadas ciegas de medio punto en el exterior y gallones en su interior. El pie es octogonal con cruz griega inscrita en círculo. Las medidas son de 141 cm de diámetro × 102 de altura." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 16 April March 2021] notes: "iglesia, dedicada a San Esteban, protomártir, gótica del siglo XV [...] La pila es románica con arcos y gallones con anillo circular y pie poligonal con relieves" [NB: this author mentions two other Romanesque sites in this village: the Ermita de San Cebrián and a former Benedictine female monastery founded in the 10thC, with fabric of 1197, now a hotel; the monastery had its own church, so both of these churches may have had fonts in them originally]. There is no cover present but the upper rim has at least one metal plug from a font cover anchoring; also, there is substantial damage on another spot of the rim probably related to another such.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 415560 4629921
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 141 cm* / **
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 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
Sáinz Sáiz, Javier, Gótico rural en Castilla y León, León: Lancia, 1997
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009