Villanueva de Gumiel

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Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 December 2017)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 17 - columns
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - south view - detail
view of font
view of font - upper view
view of font in context
view of font in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 02119VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Mamés
Church Patron Saints: St. Mammes of Cesarea [aka Mamas, Mammas, Mammet]
Church Location: Calle Amancio Ortega, 4, 09450 Villanueva de Gumiel, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located just E of the BU910-BU912 crossroads, 9-10 km NE of Aranda de Duero
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Ribera del Duero
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the font at La Ventosilla, near Gumiel de Mercado [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: present church is 17thC
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Noted and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), who gives the numer of arches in the arcade as seventeen, and suggests similarities with the Romanesque font at La Ventosilla, near Gumiel de Mercado. On-site notes: the hemispherical baisn is ornamented with a blind arcade of round arches; raised on a plain pedestal base; only the top of the plinth is visible now in the raised flooring; a metal reinforcement belt encircles now the upper rim of the bowl; the metal hinges of the old cover are still evident in the rim [NB: the font is described as 16th-century in the town's web site].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.733333, -3.616667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 44′ 0″ N, 3° 37′ 0″ W
UTM: 30T 448716 4620353
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: drain hole now [2016] blocked; no lining
Rim Thickness: 10.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 91-92 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 112-113 cm*
Basin Depth: 42 cm*
Basin Total Height: 82 cm*
Height of Base: 22 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm* / 83 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 298)
LID INFORMATION
Notes: metal staples still on the rim
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009