Brieva de Cameros
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BBL: symbol - cross - saltire - fleurdelysée
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BBU01: design element - patterns - diamond or lozenge
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BBU02: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
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LB01: design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - cross shaped
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02293BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-05-30
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sierra de Cameros workshop
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Miguel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a room at the W end of the nave, that now serves as baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: A marquis built the current town hall which has lovely tiling and stained glass windows from the early 1900s. It has a one-room jail and a balcony overlooking the square.
Church Address: C. Pedro Duro, 2, 26322 Brieva de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain -- Tel.: +34 941 37 70 36
Site Location: Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the LR-332 (follow the N-111 from S Logroño for about 50 km to Villanueva de Cameros; there, turn right onto the LR-253 and follow for 18 km; Brieva is just past Puerto Hincado)
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cobreros (1993) as baptismal font of the Romanesque period. Described and illustrated in López de Silanes Valgañón (2000), who dates it to the 13th or 14th century [NB: the local parish news sheet has it dated to the fourteenth century]. Described and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004), who suggests the font, though influenced by the Sierra de Cameros workshop, it was excuted by a mason not from the workshop but certainly influenced by it; Sáenz Rodríguez (ibid.) further notes that Brieva de Cameros is geographically in the Sierra de la Demanda, and this work links with the workshop that bears the name of the latter. In the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008). On-site notes: the basin is roughly bucket-shaped and ornamented with three bands of motifs: at the upper end is a narrow band of diamond/romboid motif; the next one down is a vine or garland; there is a plain gap below; the next band of ornamentation is separated from the above by a very thin moulding and consists of fleurdelysée (trefoiled?) saltire crosses; this band covers only the front of the basin, while the back side of this band is plain; the pedestal of the base is cylindrical and has a band of 4-petal rosettes all around. The whole is raised on a wide circular two-step plinth. The upper rim of the basin still shows the staples of the cover. There is some damage at the upper rim but it is minor.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 517041 4668058
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.164469, -2.793703
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 9′ 52.09″ N, 2° 47′ 37.33″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Rim Thickness: 7-7.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 66-67 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 81-80 cm
Basin Depth: 40 cm
Basin Total Height: 60 cm [51 cm*]
Height of Base: 28 cm [29 cm*]
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 116-129 cm (two step plinth, one measures 20 cm and second measures 8-12 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI / * [Sáenz Rodríguez (2004)]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: cover staples still in the upper rim
REFERENCES
- Cobreros, Jaime, Románico en España (Guías Periplo), Madrid: Incafo, 1993, p. 380
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en la Rioja, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 1: 195-196
- López de Silanes Valgañón, F. J. Ignacio, Rutas románicas en La Rioja, Madrid: Encuentro, 2000, p. 136, 138
- Sáenz Rodríguez, Minerva, "Las pilas bautismales del arte románico en la Rioja", Arte medieval en la Rioja: prerrománico y románico. VIII Jornadas de arte y patrimonio regional, Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2004, p. 249-250