Villafria de Burgos / Villafría de Burgos

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Image and permission receive from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 January 2022)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
view of basin in context
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
view of font
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 02100VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban Protomártir
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: 09007, C. Abajo, 7, 09192 Villafría, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 48 43 25
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off the N-1 and the BU-30 ringroad, 7 km ENE of Burgos city centre, by the Villafria-Burgos airport
Historical Region: Alfoz de Burgos / Partido de Burgos / Intendencia de Burgos
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche, S side wall
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: re-built 16thC
Font Notes:
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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- ) with dating doubtful and perhaps made by a local mason; the round basin -somehwere between hemispheric and bucket-shaped- is ornamented with a crudely rendered arcade of round arches the round base is plain. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 20 January 2022] notes: "iglesia dedicada a san Esteban, protomártir. Y es renacentista [...] La pila es románica, de vaso, con molduras en borde, arcos incisos y sogueado en base circular".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.365422, -3.616689
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 21′ 55.52″ N, 3° 37′ 0.08″ W
UTM: 30T 449220 4690534
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm* / **
Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain; hinged towards the middle; modern
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-