Trevino / Treviño

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design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand
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symbol - corn - ear of corn?
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Scene Description: the church up on the left, in the context of the town of Treviño
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Junta de Castilla y León - Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in the Portal Oficial de Turismo de la Junta de Castilla y León - Consejería de Cultura y Turismo [www.turismocastillayleon.com/es/arte-cultura-patrimonio/monumentos/iglesias-ermitas/iglesia-san-pedro-6434] [accessed 7 March 2015]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Pedro de Treviño [...] Vista frontal de una pila medieval fechable en el siglo XIII. La copa está muy decorada y presenta guirnalda ondulada, con hojas curvadas y espigas entre ellas; la parte inferior presenta entrelazado con escamas en su interior"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08541] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66049] [accessed 9 August 2024]
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Scene Description: A communication from Pedro Novella to BSI (e-mail of 11 January 2019) informs that recent baptisms in this church use a ceramic dish kept at the altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2006 by Pedro Novella
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 January 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00717TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: c/ Mayor, 34, 09215, Condado de Treviño, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: (+34) 945 360018
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located in the Condado of the same name, at the junction of the BU-742--BU-744, 18 km SSW of Vitoria, 105 km from Burgos city
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Condado de Treviño
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, an alcove beneath the gallery, N side
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, Juan Carlos Abascal Ruix de Aguirre and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font, and to Pedro Novella for the information and photograph of the 'portable' porcelain dish
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994) and (1996) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the 13th century; the large basin is decorated with a garland of leaves and ears of corn on the side; the underbowl is ornamented with a simple two-strand interlace motif and scallop pattern; plain round base. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Illustrated in the Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia [www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/47445#12] [accessed 16 April 2010]. 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: "A la pila bautismal se llega por un arco ojival. Es románica del siglo XIII, con hermosa decoración vegetal, apoyada en pie cilíndrico." A communication from Pedro Novella to BSI (e-mail of 11 January 2019) informs that recent baptisms in this church use a ceramic dish kept at the altar [cf. ImagesArea].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 4731388 520692
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 117 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 295)
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994