Tubilla del Agua No. 1 / Toviella / Tovilla

Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesqure period in the ruins of the abandoned church; the basin has rib pattern ornamentation on the outside; the base is decorated with palm leaves. Bilbao (ibid.) dates it to approximately the same as the font at nearby San Andrés de Montearados [i.e., ca. 1214, by the similarity of the ornamentation. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_TUBILLA_DEL_AGUA.pdf] [accessed 6 April 2023] reports and illustrates this font as well, although the base motif is described as ferns, not palm leaves, and the measurements are very different [diameter: 95 cm vs 133 -- height: 87 vs 93 cm vs ]. The Enciclopedia… (ibid.) reports two other fonts in this village [cf. Index entries for Tubilla del Agua Nos. 2 & 3]. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed October 2022] notes that there were three parishes here until 1868: "San Miguel, San Juan y Santa María", of which the latter remains with the advocation of "la Asunción de Nuestra Señora"; this same source refers to the disused "iglesia de San Juan, ya en desuso", and to that of "las ruinas de la iglesia de San Miguel".