Barrio de San Felices / Barrio San Felices / Barrio de Sant Helizes de Amaya / Barrios de Sant Helices de Amaya
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design element - motifs - belt or strap - with nails
Scene Description: a strap-like flat moulding with 'nail heads' creates the impression of a retainer for the wooden sides of the basin
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: atop the cylindrical pedestal base
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design element - patterns - ribbed
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: all around
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head - grotesque or fantastic
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head - grotesque or fantastic
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head - grotesque or fantastic
Scene Description: with very large eyes, somewhat resembling that of an owl
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symbol - orb - with cross
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view of base
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the drain hole
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia y casa de San Félix mártir, que antiguamente fue el monasterio de las monjas calatravas de San Felices de Amaya o de San Felices de los Barrios. Barrio de San Felices (Burgos - España)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2018 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia-de-san-felix-martir-barrio-de-san-felices-2018-02.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia y casa de San Félix mártir, que antiguamente fue el monasterio de las monjas calatravas de San Felices de Amaya o de San Felices de los Barrios. Barrio de San Felices (Burgos - España)"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 October 2018 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia-de-san-felix-martir-barrio-de-san-felices-2018-01.jpg] [accessed 3 June 2021]
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view of church interior - chancel - lectern - detail
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - south side - chapel - detail
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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: the font in its location beneath the west gallery
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02077BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [originally conventual] y casa de San Félix Mártir
Church Patron Saints: St. Felix
Church Location: 09135 Barrio de San Felices, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-6113, S of the the C627, in the municipality and 3-4 km SW of Sotresgudo, 56 km WNW of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga / Alfoz de Amaya / Cuadrilla de Cañizal, Partido de Villadiego, Intendencia de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, braneath the gallery
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early Gothic
Cognate Fonts: cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico. We are also grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: former church of a early-13thC nunnery of the Orden de Calatrava (Cistercian); later parochial church
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 3 June 2021] notes: "iglesia dedicada a San Félix [...] El ábside es rectangular [...] pórtico barroco, con gran arco de medio punto [...] La pila bautismal es románica avenerada por fuera [cf. infra] casa parroquial adosada". Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ): "La iglesia parroquial conserva en su interior como único resto románico la pila bautismal, cuya copa presenta gallones interiores y exteriores, éstos ceñidos a mediaaltura por una cinta en cuyo interior se repite la decoración de clavos. Presenta pie corto, grueso y de forma circular y en los ángulos de la basa decoración de bolas con caperuza y una cabecita monstruosa similar a las de las pilas de Hinojal o Quintanilla de Riofresno. Las dimensiones son 130 cm de diámetro ×86 cm de altura total, de los que 32 cm corresponden al tenante." The basin is ribbed inside and out; it has a narrow band with nail-head motif ornamentation, imitating a wooden construction; short, round upper base; the lower base has spheric ornamentation at the angles: two or three of them resembling owl-heads at its corners, the fourth a ball with cross decoration on it. Although included in the above sources as Romanesque the design of the font falls closer into the Gothic style
No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.55722, -4.20291
UTM: 30T 401261 4712302
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 131 cm* / 130 cm**
Basin Total Height: 50 cm [calculated]
Height of Base: 36 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )
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-