Valluercanes / Balhuerkenes / Balluerkenes / Valleórcanis / Vallorcanos / Valluércanes

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BBU: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head

Scene Description: serving as capital to one of the four the corner columns

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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N/S: design element - architectural - column - 4

Scene Description: three of the four constructional capitals are visible in this image; the one on the left has a 'capital' made up of a reticular pattern; the capitel in the centre has a grotesque head atop, the capital issuing from its mouth; the one on the right has a human head atop

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

animal - bird - facing each other - 2

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: very Irregular arcade; some of the arches have simple capitals, but others do not; the number of arches per side of the basin is also irregular

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

design element - motifs - vine - interlace

Scene Description: showing one of the sides of the upper basin

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - motifs - vine - interlace

Scene Description: very eroded now; there may have been more motifs in it not discernible now

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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design element - patterns - reticular

Scene Description: serving as capital to one of the four corner columns

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - head

Scene Description: serving as capital to one of the four corner columns; is it grotesque or just damaged?

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - head - bearded

Scene Description: serves as capital to one of the four angle columns

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

unidentified

Scene Description: serving as capital to one of the four corner columns

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing one of the sides of the upper basin, with heads at both extrmes; the damage to the top centre part may be related to a metal staple from the cover anchoring hardware splitting the stone

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the interior of the chiefly-16thC with the medieval font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the interior of the chiefly-16thC with the medieval font towards the west end

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 October 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of font in context - west side

Scene Description: showing the medieval font at the west end of the chiefly-16thC church

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00726VAL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro Apóstol

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: calle Iglesia, Valluércanes, 09219, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-7207, S of the AP-1 / N1, 26 km SW of Miranda de Ebro, 70 km NW of Burgos capital, near the border with La Rioja

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Valle del Ebro / Cuadrilla de Quintanilla de San García / Partido/Merindad de Bureba / Alfoz de Pancorbo

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque

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

Church Notes: medieval church in ruins serves now as cemetery; present church chiefly 16thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Vélez Chaurri (1984). Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) as a crude, but interesting limestone work probably of the second half of the 12th century; the large basin is bucket-shaped, but the angle colonnettes give it a square appearance; the upper basin sides have a band of vegetal scrolls, while the capitals of the angle colonnettes are: a monstrous head, a grotesque human head, bearded, a reticular motif, and, the last one, two affronted birds; lower down, on the sides of the basin, are very irregular blind round arches; the basin rests directly on a quadrangular plinth: "En el interior de este edificio se conserva la pila bautismal que nos ocupa, que procede de la cercana iglesia de San Martín, hoy arruinada y convertida en el cementerio del pueblo. Realizada en piedra caliza, está ubicada a los pies de la iglesia, apoyada sobre un pequeño basamento y carente de pie. La copa tiene unas dimensiones de 126 cm de diámetro × 76 cm de altura, y presenta una curiosa forma troncocónica que adquiere la apariencia de cuadrada gracias a las cuatro columnillas que se le adosan marcando los ángulos y dividiéndola en cuatro caras. Cada una de éstas se decora en su parte superior con una franja de roleos, que se enlazan entre sí a través de la decoración de los capiteles que coronan las columnas. En su frente aparecen talladas cuatro arquerías de medio punto que descansan sobre unos toscos cimacios sobresalientes de las pilastras en las que se apoyan. Los dieciséis arcos que la decoran están trabajados de un modo muy tosco e irregular. Las columnas presentan los deteriorados fustes lisos, ornándose los capiteles que las coronan con un glouton o máscara monstruosa que engulle el fuste, de pupilas marcadas por puntos de trépano y los roleos de la cenefa superior sobre su cabeza simulando el cabello. Otro de los capiteles aparece decorado con un rostro humano barbado, con ojos y las orejas también trepanados, el cabello con incisiones, labios carnosos y el tallo superior que parece surgirle de la boca. Un tercer capitel está decorado por un entrelazo de cestería muy irregular y la última de las cestas, la más deteriorada, muestra dos aves afrontadas por los picos que apoyan sus patas sobre el collarino; en este último capitel el roleo enlaza las patas de las aves con susc abezas, uniendo de esta forma la franja decorativa de ambas caras.La talla es ruda, destacando el ejemplar más por su excepcionalidad formal que por sus valores decorativos. Debe datar de la segunda mitad del siglo XII." The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 23 October 2021] notes: "iglesia, dedicada San Pedro, Apóstol [...] la torre es una espadaña moderna [...] La pila es románica, de tipo piscina semi-cuadrada con relieves de columnas, capiteles, arcos muy marcados y dibujos geométricos". No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 490243 4713381

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 126 cm**

Basin Total Height: 76 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 123 x 123 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-

Vélez Chaurri, J., Románico en Miranda y su comarca, 1984