Villusto / Villa Iusto / Villeiusto / Villersto / Villesiusto / Vinllusto

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B01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: it is now very damaged and eroded but may have had a pattern on it originally

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: in high relief, all around

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

view of basin

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com] [accessed 17 June 2021]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the drain hole in the centre

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

view of church exterior - soutgh view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santa María. Villusto (España)."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 July 2019 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villusto-iglesia-de-santa-maria-julio-2019-b.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Portada de la Iglesia de Santa María. Villusto (España)."

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2019 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villusto-portada-de-la-iglesia-de-santa-maria-julio-2019.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2021]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de Santa María. Villusto (España)."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 July 2019 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villusto-iglesia-de-santa-maria-julio-2019-d.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2021]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Villusto (Burgos). Vista aérea. Sur a la izquerda, norte a la derecha." -- showing the church in the upper right-hand corner

Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2019 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villusto-vista-a-julio-2019.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior in context - churchyard, cemetery

Scene Description: this cemetery wall is all that remains of the ancient parish church of San Martín de Villusto, whence the present font in the parish church of Santa María of Villusto came from; the cemetery wall stones are believed to have been part of disappeared church -- San Martin was a parish for three of the seven 'barrios' that constituted Villuso

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 July 2019 by MottaW [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villusto-cementerio-antigua-iglesia-de-san-martin-julio-2019.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Imaged and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 June 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02129VIL

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María of Villusto

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [disappeared church dedicated to St. Martin]

Church Location: Calle Hospital, 15, 09124 Villusto, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the BU-V-6232, BU-627, in the municipality and 12 km NW of Villadiego, 47 km NW of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga / Cuadrilla de Olmos / Partido de Villadiego / Intendencia de Burgos / Castilla la Vieja

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a room/alcove accessible from the street

Date: ca. 1147-1157?

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

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 gratefult to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Bilbao (1996: 299 et al) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the basin, of large size and depth, is decorated with rope motif and an inscription that reads in part "IN ERA MCLXV" (Ibid., p. 254), [i.e., "era" year 1165 = 1127 A.D.], although Bilbao (ibid. : 40, 254) reads it as 1157 (?); this inscription includes the name "Martinus" [was he the master?, the commissioner?] and gives the reigning monarch as "ADEFONSUS IMPERATOR IN CASTELLA ET IN LEONE ET IN TOLETO [...]", which Bilbao adscribes to Alfonso VII (ibid.) [cf. infra for the Enciclopedia revision of the date to betwen 1147 and 1157]. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 17 June 2021] notes: "iglesia dedicada [a] Santa María y es renacentista en cabecera [...] La portada es románica apuntada con tres arquivoltas [...] La pila es renacentista, con bordes moldurados, estriados y acanalados y pie cilíndrico. (Tiene otra románica)." [NB: this source does not give details of the earlier font or its supposed origin/provenance]. The entry for the Iglesia de Santa María of Villusto in the Enciclopedia del románico [www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_VILLUSTO.pdf] [accessed 17 June 2021] notes: "En una dependencia auxiliar hay una pila bautismal que por su cronología, año 1127, anterior a la de esta iglesia, debe proceder de la desaparecida iglesia de San Martín [...] La pila bautismal es el ejemplar burgalés más antiguo de entre los que cuentan con inscripción y datación. Es de piedra caliza y tiene forma troncocónica invertida de 109 cm dediámetro por 76 cm de altura y 12 cm de grosor en su embocadura. El interior es liso y el exterior está decorado por dos molduras, la inferior a bocel y la superior formada por una orla sogueada. En la parte superior corre una inscripción alusiva al rey Alfonso VII que plantea algunos problemas por lo que a la interpretación de la fecha se refiere: MCLXLV REG-NANTE REX ADELFONSUS IMPERATOR IN CASTELLA ET IN LEONE ET IN TOLETO ET IN BAEZA ET ALMERIA MARTINUS... En una pri-mera lectura parece leerse Era MCLXV (año 1127), sin embargo, la X va acompañada de un apéndice que aludiría en realidad a la unión de XL, es decir 40, con lo que la fecha correcta pudiera ser la era 1195, o lo que es lo mismo el año 1157. En cualquier caso es evidente que la pieza puede fecharse en el intervalo temporal de diez años que transcurrieron entre la toma de Almería, de la que se intitula también imperator, acaecida a finales de 1147, y su pérdida en 1157, coincidiendo casi con la muerte del mismo monarca." The entry for Villusto in Wikipedia [https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villusto] [accessed 17 June 2021] notes: "Pila bautismal del la Iglesia de Santa María [...] Románica. Procede, probablemente, de la antigua iglesia de San Martín, de esta misma localidad. Tiene una inscripción epigráfica que incluye la fecha en que se hizo. Es peculiar en su aspecto externo y en la distribución del texto grabado, una Suscriptio del maestro Martín que la termina y fecha el año 1157. La inscripción dice: MARTIN[US ME FECIT ERA] MCLXLV REGNĀNTE REX ADELFŎSVS IMP_ATOR IN CASTELLA ET IN LLEONE ET IN TOLETO ET IN BAEÇA ET Ī ALMARIA (Martinus me fecit, Era millesima centesima nonagesima quinta, regnante rex Aldefonsus imperator in Castella et in Leone et in Toleto et in Baeca et Almaria), que se traduce, según la fuente consultada como Martín me hizo en el año mil ciento cincuenta y siete, durante el reinado del rey Alfonso emperador en Castilla y en León y en Toledo y en Baeza y Almería." [NB: the Wikipedia entry is footnoted "Iglesias de Santa María y San Martín en el Portal de Círculo Románico", but the given link in the fn calls up a different text: "La pila bautismal es una de las más antiguas que se conservan fechadas. Tiene una copa troncocónica lisa aunque con dos molduras sogueadas. (314)".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 412955 4712815

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 12 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm* / 109 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm* / 76 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 299) / ** Enciclopedia del románico [cf. FontNotes]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: basin

Inscription Text: 1) "MARTINUS [...] IN ERA MCLXV REGNANTE REX ADEFONSUS IMPERATOR IN CASTELLA ET IN LEONE ET IN TOLETO ET IN BAEÇA ET IN ALMARIA" 2) "MCLXLV REG-NANTE REX ADELFONSUS IMPERATOR IN CASTELLA ET IN LEONE ET IN TOLETO ET IN BAEZA ET ALMERIA MARTINUS"

Inscription Source: 1) Bilbao (1996: 254) / 2) Enciclpedia del romanico

REFERENCES

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