Valdorros / Valle de Horros

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

design element - patterns - striated

Scene Description: at places it looks like zig-zag, but it may have meant to imitate a rope motif

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

design element - patterns - tapered

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the thickness of the basin walls can be appreciated here; two metal staples in view, one of which with the damage it has caused when expanding in the cold at a different rate from the stone

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

view of font in context

Scene Description: in an alcove at the northwest corner of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 21 October 2016)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00725VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: Calle la Iglesia s/n, 09320 Valdorros, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the N-1, 20 km S of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Arlanza / Alfoz de Burgos

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side corner

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: present church is chiefly 17thC; only part of the south wall and the font remain from the 12th-13thC Romanesque church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. It consists of a large roughly hemispherical basin raised on a squat round base; the upper side of the basin has tapered pattern all around, with a zig-zag pattern above it that may actually mean to represent a rope motif; the sides and underbowl are decorated with a tall blind arcade of round arches on columns with capitals and bases; there are two metal staples from an old cover hardware still in the upper rim; the larger one has split and broken off a large chunk of the upper rim, as they tend to do when the metal expands with the cold and damages the stone. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_VALDORROS.pdf] [accessed 11 April 2023], which notes the fonts at Cojobar, Madrigal del Monte, Mecerreyes, Zalduendo, Tornadijo, Valdorros, Villamayor de los Montes and Mazariegos as sharing design, ornamentation and dating at the late-12th or early 13th century: "La pila bautismal se encuentra a los pies de la iglesia, dentro de un arcosolio ubicado en el lado del evangelio. Consta de una copa semiesférica (118 cm de diámetro × 80 cm de altura) decorada con una cenefa de pequeños tacos y bajo ella una serie de arcos de medio punto que descansan cobre finas columnillas con sus correspondientes capiteles. Tipológicamente se puede encuadrar en el mismo grupo que las de Madrigal del Monte, Mecerreyes, Cojóbar, Zalduendo y Villamayor de los Montes, fechables todas ellas a finales del siglo XII o principios del XIII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 16 April 2022] notes: "La pila, buena, es románica, de vaso, con arcos en relieve y base circular con moldura y cabeza".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.171944, -3.708889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 10′ 19″ N, 3° 42′ 32″ W

UTM: 30T 441450 4669110

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 119 cm* / 118 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm* / 80 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

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-