Villarmentero nr. Las Quintanillas

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Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 3 November 2021)

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin and cover

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing some of the damage to different parts of the basin
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design element - motifs - groove - 2

Scene Description: notice the large metal staple on the rigjht; diagonally opposite is the damage caused by its pair
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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view of basin - interior

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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design element - patterns - ribbed

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette - fan palmette

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design element - motifs - interlace - 2-strand

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © WikiBurgos, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 April 2010, in WikiBurgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Villarmentero] [accessed 7 July 2016]
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view of church exterior - north view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 April 2010, in WikiBurgos [www.wikiburgos.es/wiki/Villarmentero] [accessed 7 July 2016]
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view of base

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02122VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a baptistery chapel, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: 09131 Villarmentero, Burgos, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N-120, 2 km from Las Quintanillas, 14-15 km WNW of Burgos capital [NOT TO BE MISTAKEN WITH VILLARMENTERO DE CAMPOS, PALENCIA PROVINCE]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Alfoz de Burgos
Additional Comments: altered font? The base?
Font Notes:
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- ), which gives the fonts at Villamayor de Treviño, Villegas and Rebolledo de Traspeña as having similar decorative motifs; the ribbed basin is ornamented with a braided interlace and a lower vegetal motif border on its outer side; the inner well of the basin has concave ribs; the base is round and may be covered in concrete; there is one metal staple at the upper rim of the basin. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 4 November 2021] notes: "Su iglesia está dedicada a San Esteban, protomártir, y es gótica [...] La pila, buena, es románica de vaso con gallones, avenerada por dentro, con dos anillos vegetales y pie cónico".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 109 cm* / 116 cm**
Basin Total Height: 50 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996) / ** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 62, 298