Pineda de la Sierra No. 2 / Pineta

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Results: 5 records

human figure - standing

repeated around the basin sides
Scene Description: repeated around the basin sides

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - with inserts

Font image

view of stoup

Font image

design element - patterns - fluted

around the round pedestal base
Scene Description: around the round pedestal base

view of stoup in context

Font image

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06373PIN
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: another such on the opposite side
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban Protomártir
Font Location in Church: Outside, in the porch, left side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: Pineda de la Sierra, Burgos 09199, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the banks of the Arlanzón river, 4 km S of the Embalse de Arlanzón
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Sierra de la Demanda -- Castilla la Vieja
Font Notes:
Illustrated in Palomares Aragón (1999) and in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ). One of a pair of identical holy-water stoups located at the entrance to the church; they consist of a hemispherical basin ornamented with ribbed pattern and a cylindrical pedestal ornamented with fluted pattern. The one on the left side appears much more worn that the other.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and stoup

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 475239 4673876
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.216667, -3.3
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 12' 58.67" N, 3° 17' 51.49" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941, p. 16, 103
  • 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-, vol. 12: 986
  • Palomero Aragón, Félix, Arte de la Sierra de la Demanda, El, Valadolid: Ambito, 2000, ill. on p. 108